AGATHON (c. 448–400 B.c.)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V01,
Page 371
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also: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 (Gr. avyr6cnov, a drinking party, from avµirivecv, to drink together, abv, with, and 7rivecv, to drink, root 7ro, cf. Lat. potare, to drink, poculum, cup)
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
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
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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