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Cleophon (poet)

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Cleophon (Greek: Template:Polytonic, Kleophōn) was an Athenian tragic poet who flourished in the 4th century BC. The titles of ten of his plays are given by the Suda, but none are extant today. These are:

Acteon
Amphiaraos
Achilles
The Bacchantes
Dexamenos
Erigone
Thyestes
Leukippos
Persis
Telephos

He is referred to by Aristotle in Poetics and Rhetoric.

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