Ennius translated some poems of this kind, included in his book of satires under the name of Sota.
[2] Sotades was the chief representative of the writers of obscene and even satirical poems, called "kinaidoi" (Ancient Greek: Κίναιδοι), composed in the Ionic dialect and in the metre named after him.
"[3] For this, Sotades was imprisoned, but he escaped to the city of Caunus, where he was afterwards captured by the admiral Patroclus, shut up in a leaden chest, and thrown into the sea.
British Orientalist and explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) hypothesised the existence of a "Sotadic zone".
He asserted that there exists a geographic zone in which pederasty is prevalent and celebrated among the indigenous inhabitants,[4] and named it after Sotades.