March 19, 2018
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PAGE SPONSOR		 Apollonides (Απολλωνίδης) was an ancient Greek tragedian. Excerpts of his tragedies were preserved by Klimis of Alexnandria and Ioannis Stobaios. Nothing is known about him. According to one view he might be the creator of some of the over thirty pieces included in the Greek Selection (Ελληνική Ανθολογία) under his name:
Φεῦ φεῦ γυναῖκες, ὡς ἐν ἀνθρώποις ἄρα
οὐ χρυσός, οὐ τυραννίς, οὐ πλούτου χλιδὴ
τοσοῦτον εἶχε διαφόρους τάς ἡδονάς
ὠς ἀνδρός ἐσθλοῦ καὶ γυναικὸς εὐσεβοῦς
γνώμη δικαία καὶ φρονοῦσα τἄνδικα
Aristarchus or Aristarch of Tegea was a contemporary of Sophocles and Euripides, who lived to be a centenarian, composed seventy pieces and won two tragic victories. Only the titles of three of his plays (Achilles, Asclepius, and Tantalus) with a single line of the text, have come down to us, though Ennius freely borrowed from his play about Achilles. Among his merits seems to have been that of brevity; for, as Suidas relates, he was "the first one to make his plays of the present length."
Polyfrasmon (Πολυφράσμων ή Πολυφράδμων) was an ancient Greek tragedian of the 5th Century BC, son of the poet Frynichos, who had been awarded with the First Prize at Big Dionysia in 470 BC. He was a student of Aeschylus, from whom he was defeated in 467 BC, when Polyfrasmon presented Seven on Thebes and won Third Prize. Second Prize was awarded to the poet Aristeas and First to Aeschylus with the tetralogy Oedipodeia. Under the Government of Haris in Athens, he was reported to have won many First Prizes. Pausanias mentions Pleuroniai as one of Polyfrasmon's plays.
Chaeremon (Greek: Χαιρήμων) was an Athenian dramatist of the first half of the fourth century BCE. He was generally considered a tragic poet like Choerilus. Aristotle (Rhetoric) said his works were intended for reading, not for representation. According to Suidas, Chaeremon was also a comic poet, and the title of at least one of his plays (Achilles Slayer of Thersites) seems to indicate that it was a satyric drama. His Centaurus (or Centaur) is described by Aristotle (Poet) as a rhapsody in all kinds of meters. The fragments of Chaeremon are distinguished by correctness of form and facility of rhythm, but marred by a florid and affected style reminiscent of Agathon. He especially excelled in descriptions (irrelevantly introduced) dealing with such subjects as flowers and female beauty. It is not agreed whether he is the author of three epigrams in the Greek Anthology (Palatine) which bear his name. His maxim, "Luck, not wisdom, rules the affairs of men," was adopted by Kundogius as the text of one of his essays.