Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Philŏcles

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Philŏcles

（Φιλοκλῆς).

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A Greek tragedian, son of Aeschylus's sister. He wrote a hundred plays in the manner of Aeschylus, and won the prize against Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus. Only scanty fragments of his plays remain. The drama was also cultivated by his sons Morsimus and Melanthius, by Morsimus's son Astydamas (about B.C. 399), and again by the sons of the latter, Astydamas and Philocles.

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The joint commander with Conon of the Athenian fleet at the battle of Arginusae, and put to death by Lysander for having treated his prisoners with cruelty (Plut. Lys. 13).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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