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Aristophon
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Aristophon () was the name of a number of different people of ancient Greece: * Aristophon (painter), 5th-century BCE painter and son of Aglaophon * Three men sometimes called "Aristophon of Athens", all of whom were described as "orators" within the same century or so: ** Aristophon of Azenia, prominent Athenian orator of the 4th century BCE ** Aristophon of Colyttus, prominent Athenian orator of the 4th century BCE ** Aristophon of Athens, an Athenian orator distinct from the previous two orators * Aristophon (comic poet), a playwright of the Middle Comedy Ancient Greek comedy () was one of the final three principal dramatic forms in the theatre of classical Greece; the others being tragedy and the satyr play The satyr play is a form of Attic theatre performance related to both comedy and trag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristophon Of Athens
Aristophon () was the eponymous archon in the year 330 BCE. Second century BCE philosopher Theophrastus calls this Aristophon an orator. That this man, who was archon in the same year in which Demosthenes delivered his oration on the crown, was not the same as Aristophon of Colyttus is clear from that oration itself, in which Aristophon of Colyttus is spoken of as deceased. Whether this Aristophon was actually an orator, as Theophrastus wrote, is considered doubtful by some scholars, since it is not mentioned anywhere else. The scholar David Ruhnken conjectures that the word ''rhetor'' (ῥήτωρ) was inserted over the centuries into a manuscript of Theophrastus by someone who believed that either Aristophon of Colyttus or Aristophon of Azenia Aristophon (; lived 4th century BC) was native of the deme of Azenia in Attica. He lived about and after the end of the Peloponnesian War. In 412 BC, Aristophon, Laespodias, and Melesias were sent to Sparta as ambassadors by the oligarc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristophon Of Azenia
Aristophon (; lived 4th century BC) was native of the deme of Azenia in Attica. He lived about and after the end of the Peloponnesian War. In 412 BC, Aristophon, Laespodias, and Melesias were sent to Sparta as ambassadors by the oligarchical government of the Four Hundred. In the archonship of Euclid in 404, after Athens was delivered of the Thirty Tyrants, Aristophon proposed a law which, though said to be beneficial to the republic, yet caused great uneasiness and troubles in many families at Athens; for it ordained that no one should be regarded as a citizen of Athens whose mother was not a freeborn woman. He also proposed various other laws, by which he acquired great popularity and the full confidence of the people. Their great number may be inferred from his own statement that he was accused 75 times of having made illegal proposals, but that he had always come off victorious. His influence with the people is most manifest from his accusation of Iphicrates and Timotheus, tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristophon Of Colyttus
Aristophon () was native of the deme of Collytus, a great orator and politician, whose career is for the most part contemporaneous with that of Demosthenes. It was this Aristophon whom Aeschines served as a clerk, and in whose service he was trained for his public career. This Aristophon is often confused with the other orators in Athens around this time named "Aristophon". ''Lives of the Ten Orators'' (spuriously attributed to Plutarch) mentions an orator of this name, whom some scholars have taken to indicate this Aristophon, however other scholars believe this incorrect, and that he is referring to Aristophon of Azenia. This orator is often mentioned by Demothenes, though he gives him the distinguishing epithet "of Colyttus" (ὁ Κολυττεύς) only once, and he is always spoken of as a man of considerable influence and authority. As an orator he is ranked with Diopeithes and Chares of Athens Chares of Athens () was a 4th-century BC Athenian military commander (Strateg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristophon (painter)
Aristophon was a Greek painter, mentioned by Pliny the Elder. Life Aristophon was the son and pupil of the elder Aglaophon, and brother of Polygnotus. He was a native of Thasos. Pliny, who places him among the painters of the second rank, mentions two works by him: one showing Ancaeus wounded by the boar and mourned over by his mother Astypalaea, and another containing figures of Priam, Helen, Ulysses, Deiphobus, Dolon, and Credulitas. Plutarch names Aristophon as the painter of a picture of Alcibiades in the arms of Nemea; Athenaeus Athenaeus of Naucratis (, or Nαυκράτιος, ''Athēnaios Naukratitēs'' or ''Naukratios''; ) was an ancient Greek rhetorician and Grammarian (Greco-Roman), grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century ... however says it was by Aglaophon. References Sources * Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Ancient Greek painters Artists of ancient Thasos 5th-century BC painters {{G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aglaophon
Aglaophon ( ''Aglaofon'') was an ancient Greek painter, born on the island of Thasos. He was the father and instructor of Polygnotus. He had another son named Aristophon. As Polygnotus flourished before the 90th Olympiad,Pliny the Elder, ''Natural History'' xxxv. 9. s. 35-36 Aglaophon probably lived around the 70th Olympiad, that is, around the late 6th or early 5th century BC. Quintilian praises his paintings, which were distinguished by the simplicity of their coloring, as worthy of admiration on other grounds besides their antiquity. Aglaophon the Younger There was an Aglaophon who flourished in the 90th Olympiad, according to Pliny, and his statement is confirmed by a passage of Athenaeus from which we learn that he painted two pictures, in one of which Olympias and Pythia, as the presiding geniuses of the Olympic and Pythian Games, were represented crowning Alcibiades; in the other, Nemea, the presiding deity of the Nemean games, held Alcibiades on her knees. Alcibiade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristophon (comic Poet)
Aristophon (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοφῶν) was an Athenian Ancient Greek comedy, comic poet of the Middle Comedy. He was probably victorious at least once at the Lenaia around 350 BCE (IG II2 2325.151). Surviving titles and fragments The following eight titles, along with fifteen associated fragments, are all that has survived of Aristophon's work: * ''Babias'' * ''Twin Girls'', or ''Pyraunos'' * ''The Physician'' * ''Callonides'' * ''Perithous'' * ''Plato'' * ''The Pythagorean'' * ''Philonides'' References * Rudolf Kassel and Colin Austin, ''Poetae Comici Graeci'', Vol. 4 {{authority control 4th-century BC Athenians Ancient Athenian dramatists and playwrights Middle Comic poets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece () was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity (), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and communities. Prior to the Roman period, most of these regions were officially unified only once under the Kingdom of Macedon from 338 to 323 BC. In Western history, the era of classical antiquity was immediately followed by the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine period. Three centuries after the decline of Mycenaean Greece during the Bronze Age collapse, Greek urban poleis began to form in the 8th century BC, ushering in the Archaic period and the colonization of the Mediterranean Basin. This was followed by the age of Classical Greece, from the Greco-Persian Wars to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, and which included the Golden Age of Athens and the Peloponnesian War. The u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
