Hippo'thoon
(
Ἱπποθόων), a Greek tragedian, whose exact time is unknown, but who probably lived shortly before Alexander the Great.
He is several times quoted by Stobaeus, who also cites a poet Hippothoüs, the identity of whom with Hippothoön is uncertain.
He is sometimes erroneously reckoned among the comic poets, as, for example, by Fabricius. (
Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 451; Welcker,
die Griech. Tragyöd. p. 1099; Meineke,
Hist. Crit. Com. Graec. p. 525.)
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