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Phrynichus (comic poet) Phrynichus ( / ˈfrɪnɪkəs /; Greek: Φρύνιχος) was a poet of the Old Attic comedy and a contemporary of Aristophanes. His first comedy was exhibited in 429 BC. He composed ten plays, of which the Recluse was exhibited at the City Dionysia in 414 along with the Birds of Aristophanes and gained the third prize.
PHRYNICHUS, frĭn′ĭ-kŭs (Lat., from Gk. Φρύνιχος) A Greek tragic poet of Athens, an older contemporary of Æschylus. He won his first victory in B.C. 511 and his last in 476, when Themistocles was his choragos. Like Æschylus, he is said to have died in Sicily. In all the accounts of the rise and development of the tragedy ...
Choerilus of Athens, a tragic poet, contemporary with Thespis, Phrynichus, Pratinas, Aeschylus, and even with Sophocles. His first appearance as a competitor for the tragic prize was in B.C. 523, in the reign of Hipparchus, when Athens was becoming the centre of Greek poetry by the residence there of Simonides, Anacreon, Lasus, and others.
Phrynichus the son of <Poly> phradmon died in Sicily. 1 Eupolis of Athens produced in the archonship of Apollodorus [430/29], the same year as Phrynichus. 1 This is likely not the comic poet, but Phrynichus the early tragic poet, whose father was named Polyphradmon (Σ Birds 749 = TrGF 3 T 10g).
Phrynichus (tragic poet) Phrynichus (/ˈfrɪnɪkəs/; Greek: Φρύνιχος), son of Polyphradmon and pupil of Thespis, was one of the earliest of the Greek tragedians. Some ancients regarded him as the real founder of tragedy. Phrynichus is said to have died in Sicily. His son Polyphrasmon was also a playwright. Phyrynichus wrote two out of ...
Antiphon (tragic poet) Apollodorus of Tarsus; Apollonides (poet) Aristarchus of Tegea; ... Phrynichus (tragic poet) Alexandrian Pleiad; Polyphrasmon; Pratinas; S ...
Phrynichus (tragic poet) Phrynichus, son of Polyphradmon and pupil of Thespis, was one of the earliest of the Greek tragedians. ref|Buckham1 Some of the ancients, indeed, regarded him as the real founder of tragedy. He gained his first victory in a drama contest in 511 BC, when his famous play, the "Capture of Miletus " (probably composed ...
