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AGATHON (c. 448–400 B.c.)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 371 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AGATHON (c. 448–400 B.c.)  , Athenian tragic poet, friend of See also:Euripides and See also:Plato, best known from his mention by See also:Aristophanes (Thesmophoriazusae) and in Plato's See also:Symposium, which describes the lfanquet given to celebrate his obtaining a See also:prize for a tragedy (416) . He probably died at the See also:court of See also:Archelaus, See also:king of See also:Macedonia . He introduced certain innovations, and See also:Aristotle (Poetica, 9) tells us that the See also:plot of his AVOos was See also:original, not, as usually, borrowed from mythological subjects . See Aristophanes, Thesmoph . 59, Io6, See also:Eccles. too; Plato, Symp . 198 c; See also:Plutarch, Symp . 3; See also:Aelian, See also:Var . Hist. xiv . 13; Ritsch, Opuscula, i . ; fragments in See also:Nauck, Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta .

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