Pratinas of Phleius

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Pratinas von Phleius ( Greek  Πρατίνας Pratínas ; † probably before 467 BC) was one of the earliest tragedy poets of Athens in ancient Greece and is considered the founder of the satyr play .

life and work

Pratinas, son of a Pyrrhonides or Enkomios, came from Phleius near Corinth in the north-eastern Peloponnese . He took around 500 BC Participated in literary competitions and measured himself against Choirilos and the later famous tragedy poet Aeschylus in the musical agon of Dionysia in the 70th Olympiad (499/96 BC). Pratinas had a son named Aristias , who also wrote.

His greatest merit is the "invention" of the dramatic genre of satyr play, which may have been a redesign of the cyclical choirs of satyrs known from the Doric area. 32 of his around 50 works alone are said to have been satyr games. Only known of his tragic works are the satyr play Palaistai ("knight") and the tragedies Perseus and Tantalus , written by his son Aristias in 467 BC. Were performed as part of the tragic competitions, but were subject to the plays of Aeschylus. From Pratinas a larger fragment of a choir song called “Hyporchema” (“dance song”) has been preserved at Athenaios , in which a burlesque choir protests against a different use of its dance floor. While Thespis brought innovations to the satyr play, Pratinas saw himself as a poetic representative of the traditionalists. According to Suda, he was once successful in the tragic competitions.

literature

  • Albrecht Dihle : Greek literary history. CH Beck. Munich 1991, ISBN 3-406-34887-4 , p. 210 f.
  • Rebecca Lämmle: The Satyr Play. In: Bernhard Zimmermann (Hrsg.): Handbook of the Greek literature of antiquity , Volume 1: The literature of the archaic and classical times . CH Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-57673-7 , pp. 611-663, here: 635-637
  • Albin Lesky : History of Greek Literature. Francke, Berlin / Munich 1971, ISBN 3-7720-0050-9 , p. 268 f.
  • Max Pohlenz : The satyr play and Pratinas by Phleius. In: News of the Göttingen learned society 1927, pp. 298–321.

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c Suda , keyword Πρατίνας , Adler number: pi 2230 , Suda-Online
  2. ↑ Pausanias 2, 13, 6 .
  3. ↑ Inscriptiones Graecae II 2 2853, 21-32; Bruno Snell : Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta . Volume 1: Didaskalien, catalogs, fragments of smaller tragics , 2nd, improved edition 1986, No. C467.
  4. ↑ Athenaios, Deipnosophistai 14: 6, 17.
personal data
SURNAME Pratinas of Phleius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Πρατίνας (Greek); Pratinas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek tragedy poet, founder of the satyr play
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
PLACE OF BIRTH Phleius
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC Chr.