Leukon (comedy poet)

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Leukon ( Greek  Λεύκων ), son of Hagnon, was a Greek playwright of ancient comedy in the 2nd half of the 5th century BC. Chr.

According to Suda , who knows two of his works - The Phrators and The Hose- Carrying Donkey - he lived during the Peloponnesian War . In addition, a third part of Leukon is known by name, the ambassadors . With these he occupied in the year 422 BC At the Lenaia in Athens third place behind the wasps of Aristophanes , who also won with his second piece Proagon . Also in the following year 421 BC BC he reached only third place with the Phrators , this time with the Dionysia , and again defeated Aristophanes with the peace in second place, while Eupolis won with the flatterers . His name is on the list of winners of the Dionysia. Verses in which he mocked Hyperbolus and the tragedian Melanthios have survived only from the phrators . However, Leukon is often cited by the scholiasts to prove the use of individual words. It is known from the hose-carrying donkey that it was about a deceitful farmer who leads a donkey to the market with baskets containing forbidden hoses with honey at the bottom, but above them were filled with barley. When the donkey fell, the crime was discovered by the market police and the farmer lost his goods.

Works

  • Presbeis ( Πρέσβεις "The Messengers", 422 BC listed)
  • Phrateres ( Φράτερες "The Phrators" or "The Fellow Citizens", listed in 421 BC)
  • Onos askophoros ( Ὄνος ἀσκοφόρος "The hose- carrying donkey")

literature

  • Andreas Bagordo : Leukon-Xenophilos. Introduction, translation, commentary (= Fragmenta Comica. Volume 1, Part 2) Verlag Antike, Heidelberg 2014, pp. 11–34.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Suda , keyword Λεύκων , Adler number: lambda 340 , Suda-Online
  2. ↑ Hypothesis to Aristophanes, The Wasps .
  3. ↑ Hypothesis to Aristophanes, The Peace .
  4. ↑ IG II² 2325, 66 .
  5. ↑ Zenobios 1.74; Suda , keyword Ἄλλα , Adler number: alpha 1064 , Suda-Online .
personal data
SURNAME Leukon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Λεύκων (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient comedy Greek playwright
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr.