Philemon the Younger

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Philemon the Younger was a 3rd century BC Greek comedy poet. Chr.

Life and works

Philemon the Younger was a son of the comedy writer Philemon the Elder . He won several times in the urban Dionysia ; the Suda reports that he was like his father καὶ αὐτὸς κωμικὀς ("also a comedian himself") and wrote 54 pieces. The list of winners at the Dionysia lists him with six victories. His name was found on the corresponding part of the inscription C of the agonothetical consecration gift in 279/78 BC. BC as the last entered by the hand that wrote up to that point. The inscription was later expanded as more winners were added. Apart from the mention in the Suda, only a few literary traces of the younger Philemon have survived, including three quotations from some verses of Philemon in Athenaios and Stobaios .

Inscription is in the 2nd century BC. A comedy by Phokeis , whose author was probably the younger Philemon. Whether the participant in a comedy agon on Delos in 280 BC Chr. Philemon was the younger or the older comedy poet is uncertain.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Suda , keyword Φιλήμων , Adler number: phi 329 , Suda-Online .
  2. ↑ IG II² 2325 , line 74; see. Michael Fontaine, Adele C. Scafuro (Eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy. Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-199-74354-4 , p. 877 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  3. ^ Benjamin Millis, Douglas Olson (eds.): Inscriptional Records for the Dramatic Festivals in Athens. IG II² 2318-2325 and Related Texts. Brill, Leiden / Boston 2012, p. 133 f.
  4. ^ John Maxwell Edmonds: The Fragments of Attic Comedy. Volume 1. Brill, Leiden 1957, pp. 250-252; Rudolf Kassel , Colin Austin (eds.): Poetae Comici Graeci . Volume 7. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1989, pp. 318-320.
  5. ↑ Athenaios, Deipnosophistai 7,291 d.
  6. ↑ Stobaios 4,38,6.
  7. ↑ IG II² 2323 .
  8. ^ John Maxwell Edmonds: The Fragments of Attic Comedy. Volume 1. Brill, Leiden 1957, pp. 250-252.
  9. ^ IG XI, 2 107 .
  10. ↑ Rudolf Kassel, Colin Austin (ed.): Poetae Comici Graeci . Volume 7. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1989, p. 318 see in him the younger Philemon; also Heinz-Günther Nesselrath : Philemon 3. In: Der Neue Pauly (DNP). Volume 9, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01479-7 , Col. 785 f. Rejecting Benjamin Millis, Douglas Olson (eds.): Inscriptional Records for the Dramatic Festivals in Athens. IG II² 2318-2325 and Related Texts. Brill, Leiden / Boston 2012, pp. 169, 190.
personal data
SURNAME Philemon the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Philemon; Philemo Junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Young comedy poet
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC BC or 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 3rd century BC Chr.