Aphareus (tragedian)

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Aphareus was an Athenian tragedian and orator of the 4th century BC. Chr.

Life

Aphareus was a son of the rhetorician Hippias and his wife Plathane . She had three sons, of whom Aphareus was the youngest. After Hippias' death she married the Attic orator Isocrates , who adopted Aphareus. Apparently Aphareus had a good relationship with his adoptive father, as he had a bronze statue erected for him, the inscription of which Pseudo- Plutarch has handed down.

Aphareus had been trained in the school of Isocrates and wrote deliberative and judicial speeches . With such a speech of the latter kind, of which only the title is known, he defended in 355 BC. His adoptive father successfully against mega-dress ; Isocrates was unable to represent his case himself because of an illness. But Aphareus' fame as a tragedy poet seems to have been greater than that as a speaker. He began his career as a tragedian during Archontats of Lysistratos 369/68 v. And was in this area for 28 years until the archonate of Sosigenes in 342/41 BC. Active. During this time he wrote 37 tragedies, but there were two whose authenticity was doubted by ancient critics. These tragedies formed tetralogies, that is, four of them were performed at once as a major drama in Athens . He won two prizes at the great Dionysia . But Aphareus' dramatic works are completely lost; fragments have not survived, and their titles are not even known. Aphareus' name is recorded on a Didascal charter.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ So the statement of Pseudo Plutarchs ( Vitae decem Oratorum , Moralia p. 838 a and 839 b) about the mother of Aphareus; according to Photios ( library , Codex 260, p. 488 ed. Bekker), however, Aphareus' mother was the hetaera Lagiske .
  2. ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus , Isokrrates 18; Pseudo-Plutarch, Vitae decem Oratorum , Moralia p. 838 a and 839 b; Suda , s. Aphareus .
  3. ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus Isokrrates 18 and Deinarchus 13; Pseudo-Plutarch, Vitae decem Oratorum , Moralia p. 839 c; see. Photios, Libraries , Codex 260, p. 487 ed.Bekker.
  4. ↑ Pseudo-Plutarch, Vitae decem Oratorum , Moralia p. 839 c.
personal data
SURNAME Aphareus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Athenian tragedian and orator
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 4th century BC Chr.