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Aeschylus

Aeschylus  

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Athenian tragic poet (?525/4–456/5 bc). He fought in the battle of Marathon. His first tragic production was in 499, his first victory in 484. He gained thirteen victories altogether. His epitaph ...
Danaus

Danaus  

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Danaus was the son of Belus, the brother of Aegyptus, eponym of the Egyptians, and the brother‐in‐law of Phoenix, eponym of the Phoenicians. He himself is the eponym of the Danaans (Danaoi), a word ...
Didymus

Didymus  

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(1st cent. bc) belonged to the school founded at Alexandria by Aristarchus (2) and himself taught there. A scholar of immense learning and industry (cf. his nicknames Chalkenteros (‘Brazen-bowels’) ...
Greek tragedy

Greek tragedy  

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Tragedy, one of the most influential literary forms that originated in Greece, is esp. associated with Athens in the 5th cent. bc. All but one of the surviving plays date from the 5th cent., but ...
intolerance, intellectual and religious

intolerance, intellectual and religious  

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Sir K. Popper famously praised 5th cent. bc Athens as an ‘open society’, but the tolerance of that society had limits. There is some evidence for literary censorship, though of a haphazard and ...
Phrynichus

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Andrew L. Brown

Who's Who in the Classical World

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2003
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Classical studies, History
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an early Athenian tragic poet. The Suda says that he won his first victory between 511 and 508 bc, was the first to introduce female characters in tragedy, and invented the trochaic ... More
Phrynichus

Phrynichus (1)   Reference library

Andrew Brown

The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)

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2012
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an early Athenian tragic poet; see tragedy, greek. The *Suda says that he won his first victory between 511...

Polyphrasmon

Polyphrasmon  

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Son of Phrynichus (1), was also a tragic poet, winning his first victory between 482 and 471. His Lykourgeia tetralogy was defeated in 467 by the Theban tetralogy of Aeschylus and by Aristias.[...]
Themistocles

Themistocles  

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(c. 528–462 bc),Athenian statesman, who helped build up the Athenian fleet (see wooden walls), and defeated the Persian fleet at Salamis in 480. He was ostracized in 470, and eventually fled to the ...

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