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Aphareus (4th century BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian and orator. He attended the school of Isocrates, along with Theodectes. He was the son of Hippias the sophist, and the adopted son of Isocrates, left behind him thirty - seven tragedies, and had been successful in winning four victories. Antiphon (Αντιφών (Ἀντιφῶν,
400 BC)) was an ancient Greek tragedian. He is sometimes confused with
the orator Antiphon of Attica. He lived for a certain period at the
court of the Syracusian tyrant Dionysios the Elder, who, in his later
years, had developed an interest in poetry. It has been written that
Antiphon collaborated with Dionysios. The
story is that Dionysios condemned him to death for not praising his
poetical skills or, alternatively, for sarcastically commenting on the
Syracusian regime. On this second version, Pseudo - Ploutarch mentions
the following story: When Antiphon was asked during a feast (symposium)
what was the best type of bronze, he responded ``That used by the
Athenians to mold the statues of Armodios and of Areistogeiton",
referring, with sarcasm and clear unequivocal condemnation of the
tyranny of Syracuse, to the pair of the two Athenians that had murdered
their own tyrant. Five titles of Antiphon's tragedies have come down to us through Aristotle: Meleagros, Andromache, Media, Iason (Jason) and Philoktitis. |