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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Plato (search)
wpes *Paida/rion *Pei/sandros *Perialgh/s *Poihth/s *Pre/sbeis *Skeuai/ *Sofistai/ *Summaxi/a *Su/rfac *(Upe/rbolos *Fa/wn. The following dates of his plays are known : the Cleophon gained the third prize in Ol. 93. 4, B. C. 405, when Aristophanes was first with the Frogs, and Phrynichus second with the Muses ; the Phaon was exhibited in Ol. 97. 2, B. C. 391 (Schol. in Aristoph. Plut. 179); the Peisander about Ol. 89, B. C. 423; the Perialges a little later; the Hyperbolus about Ol. 91, B. C. 415; the Presbeis about Ol. 97, B. C. 392. The Laius seems to have been one of the latest of his plays. Assessment It has been already stated that some grammarians assign Plato to the Middle Comedy; and it is evident that several of the above titles belong to that species. Some even mention Plato as a poet of the New Comedy. (Atlen. iii. p. 103c., vii. p. 279a.) Hence a few modern scholars have supposed a second Plato, a poet of the New Comedy, who lived after Epicuruis. But Diogenes Laerti
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Poti'tus, Vale'rius 3. C. Valerius Potitus Volusus, described in the Capitoline Fasti as VOLUSI N., L. F., was consular tribune B. C. 415 (Liv. 4.49), and consul with M'. Aemilius Mamercinus, B. C. 410. In his to the agrarian law of the tribune M. Maenius; and he recovered the Arx Carventana, which had been taken by the Volsci, in consequence of which he entered the city in an ovation. He was consular tribune a second time in B. C. 407, and a third time in B. C. 404. (Liv. 4.57, 61.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pyro'machus (search)
Pyro'machus 1. We have already noticed the Athenian sculptor, who executed the bas-reliefs on the frieze of the temple of Athena Polias, about Ol. 91, B. C. 415, and the true form of whose name was Phyromachus. [PHYROMACHUS.] This artist is evidently the same whom Pliny mentions, in his list of statuaries, as the maker of a group representing Alcibiades driving a four-horse chariot. (Pyromachi quadriga regitur ab Alcibiade, Plin. Nat. 34.8. s. 19.20: the reading of all the MSS. is Pyromaci, a fact easily accounted for by a natural confusion between this artist and the other Pyromachus, who is mentioned twice in the same section). Hence we see that this Phyromachus was an Athenian artist of the age immediately succeeding that of Pheidias, and that he was highly distinguished both as a sculptor in marble, and as a statuary in bronze.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sica'nus (search)
Sica'nus （*Sikano/s), son of Execestus, was one of the three generals of the Syracusans (Hermocrates being another), who were appointed at the time of the Athenian invasion, B. C. 415. In B. C. 413, after the repulse of the Athenians from Epipolae, he was sent with 13 ships to Agrigentum, to endeavour to obtain assistance; but, before he could reach the city, the party there, which was favourable to the Syracusans, was defeated and driven out. In the sea-fight of the same year, in which the Athenians were conquered and Eurymedon was slain, Sicanus, according to Diodorus, was the author of the plan for setting fire to the enemy's ships, which had been driven into the shallow water near the shore; and shortly after we find him commanding one wing of the Syracusan fleet in the last and decisive defeat of the Athenians in the great harbour of Syracuse. (Thuc. 6.73, 7.46, 50, 53, 70; Diod. 13.13.) [E.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Strongy'lion (search)
f Cephisodotus first. Even if we suppose the parts of the group to have been executed at the same time, it is quite possible, as Ross has argued, to bring back the date of Cephisodotus I. high enough to admit of his having been in part contemporary with Strongylion, about the beginning of the fourth century B. C. At all events, it is clear that these passages do not warrant Sillig in placing Strongylion with Cephisodotus I. and Praxiteles at Ol. 103, B. C. 368, but that he flourished about B. C. 415, and probably for some time both before and after that date. Perhaps we might safely assign as his period the last thirty or forty years of the fifth century B. C. Pliny mentions two other bronze statues by Strongylion (H. V. 34.8. s. 19.21); the one of an Amazon. the beauty of whose legs obtained for it the epithet Eucnemos, and excited the admiration of Nero to such a degree that he had it carried about with him in his travels; the other of a boy, of which Brutus was so fond that it w
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Vibula'nus (search)
Vibula'nus 6. N. Fabius Vibulanus, Q. F. M. N., second son of No. 4, was consul B. C. 421 with T. Quintius Capitolinus Barbatus. He carried on war against the Aequians, whom he put to flight without any difficulty : he was refused a triumph, but received the honour of an ovation. It was in this year that the consuls proposed that in addition to the two city quaestors, two others should be appointed to attend upon the consuls in time of war. This proposal gave rise to great contests, as the tribunes insisted that some of the quaestors should be chosen from the plebeians. In B. C. 415 Fabius was one of the consular tribunes, and again in B. C. 407. (Liv. 4.43, 49, 58; Diod. 13.24, 14.3.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Xe'nocles (search)
m and his drama entitled Licymnius (Nub. 1259, full. the correct explanation is given by some of the Scholiasts, and by Meineke and others, as quoted below). In these allusions we have sufficient materials for the date of Xenocles; for it appears, from the passage last quoted, that he had met with a signal defeat in a dramatic contest, shortly before the exhibition of the Clouds (B. C. 423 or 422), and the mention of him in the Frogs shows that he was still alive in B. C. 405. In Ol. 91, B. C. 415, he obtained a victory over Euripides (Aelian, Ael. VH 2.8; the date being corrected from Diod. 12.82, and Schol. ad Aristoph. Wasps 1317). On this occasion each poet exhibited a tetralogy; that of Xenocles consisting of the tragedies Oedipus, Lycaon, Bacchae, and the satyric drama Athamas ; that of Euripides, of the tragedies Alexander, Palamedes, Troades, and the satyric drama Sisyphus. The indignation of Aelian at this judgment shows the low estimate in which Xenocles was held by the an
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