Aristias
Aristias (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστίας), son of Pratinas, was a dramatic poet of ancient Greece whose tomb Pausanias saw at Phlius, and whose satyric dramas, with those of his father, were considered to be surpassed only by those of Aeschylus.[1] Aristias is mentioned in the life of Sophocles as one of the poets with whom the latter contended. Besides two dramas, which were undoubtedly satyr plays, the Keres (
References[edit]
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.13.5
- ^ Comp. Athen. 15.686a
- ^ Julius Pollux Onomasticon (Ὀνομαστικόν), 7.31
- ^ Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, Die griechischen Tragödien mit Rücksicht auf den epischen Zyklus geordnet, (1864), p. 966
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Aristias". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 297.