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Cleophon (poet)

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Cleophon (Greek: Kλεoφῶν, Kleophōn) was an Athenian tragic poet[1] who flourished in the 4th century BC. The titles of eleven of his plays are given by the Suda: Acteon, Amphiaraos, Achilles, The Bacchantes, Dexamenos, Erigone, Thyestes, Leukippos, Mandroboulos, Persis, and Telephos. None of these plays are extant today; no fragments or quotations have come down to us.

He is referred to by Aristotle in Poetics and Rhetoric.[2]

References

  1. ^ Hammond, N.G.L; Scullard, H.H (1970). Oxford Classical Dictionary (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 252. ISBN 0198691173.
  2. ^ Aristotle. "Poetics".