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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...
- 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...
- Euphonius 450 BC - Crates 446 BC - Callias 43? BC - Cratinus 437 BC - Pherecrates 435 BC - Hermippus 427 BC - Unknown; Aristophanes took 2nd place with...
- Archestratus, Aeschylus, Steischorus, Epicharmus, Nikophon, Aristophanes and Pherecrates. In The Deipnosophists, Athenaeus describes enkrides as "cakes boiled...
- 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...
- 420 BC) Aristomenes, between 431 and 388 BC Telecleides 5th century BC Pherecrates 420 BC Plato Diocles of Phlius Sannyrion Philyllius, 394 BC Hipparchus...
- poet who probably flourished about the time of Alexander the Great. Pherecrates (5th century BC), Athenian Old Comedy poet and rough contemporary of...
- only fragments survive (fragments 14–22 K-A), and he was considered by Pherecrates to have had a corrupting influence on dithyrambic poetry (fragment 155...
- 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...
- affectations are repeatedly attacked by the comic poets, especially Pherecrates and Aristophanes. Among the innovations which he is said to have made...