He also posed as an author and patron of literature; his poems, severely criticized by Philoxenus, were hissed at, at the Olympic games, but having gained a prize for a tragedy on the Ransom of Hector at the Lenaea at Athens, he was so elated that he engaged in a debauch which, according to some sources, proved fatal.
De asemenea, el s-a considerat scriitor și patron al literaturii; poemele sale, aspru criticate de Philoxenus, au fost huiduite la Jocurile Olimpice, dar, câștigând un premiu pentru o tragedie despre Răscumpărarea lui Hector la Festivalul Lenaea din Atena, el a fost atât de entuziasmat că, potrivit unor surse, a băut până a murit.