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Pherecrates (Gr****: Φερεκράτης) was a Gr**** poet of
Athenian Old Comedy, and a
rough contemporary of Cratinus,
Crates and Aristophanes. He was victorious...
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dated to the
fifth century BC, in a
comedy titled The Miners,
written by
Pherecrates. The
ancient sources provide contradictory accounts on
whether the soup...
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younger than
Diagoras of Melos. He was a
contemporary of the
comic poet
Pherecrates. He
lived for some time at the
court of
Archelaus of Macedon, and died...
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Euphonius 450 BC -
Crates 446 BC -
Callias 43? BC -
Cratinus 437 BC -
Pherecrates 435 BC -
Hermippus 427 BC - Unknown;
Aristophanes took 2nd
place with...
- 420 BC) Aristomenes,
between 431 and 388 BC
Telecleides 5th
century BC
Pherecrates 420 BC
Plato Diocles of
Phlius Sannyrion Philyllius, 394 BC Hipparchus...
- ISBN 0-19-869117-3. Storey, Ian C.,
Fragments of Old Comedy,
Volume II:
Diopeithes to
Pherecrates,
edited and
translated by Ian C. Storey, Loeb
classical Library No. 514...
- 823. Aristophanes, Knights, 1347–1348 and scholia. Pausanias, 7.22.6.
Pherecrates fr.70 PCG apud Athenaeus, 13.612a and 15.687a. Aristophanes, Birds, 1549–1551...
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mentions here, in each case by the Old Men with
approval as a misogynist.
Pherecrates: A
contemporary comic poet, he is
quoted by
Lysistrata as the author...
- 411 BC) The
Frogs (405 BC) ****emblywomen (c. 392 BC)
Plutus (388 BC)
Pherecrates 420 BC
Diocles of
Phlius Sannyrion Philyllius, 394 BC
Hipparchus Archippus...
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fragments survive (fragments 14–22 K-A), and he was
considered by
Pherecrates to have had a
corrupting influence on
dithyrambic poetry (fragment 155...
