Diogenes of Athens (tragedian)
Diogenes of Athens(Greek:Διογένης ὁ Ἀθηναῖος) was a writer ofGreek tragedyin the late 5th or early 4th century BC. His works are listed by theSuda[1]asSemele,[2]Achilles,Helen,Herakles,Thyestes,Medea,Oedipus,andChrysippus.He was either born orflourishedat the time of theThirty Tyrantsand the suppression ofAthenian democracy,around 404–403 BC.[3]
This Diogenes is sometimes confused withDiogenes of Sinope,to whom a similar list of tragedies is attributed[4]byDiogenes Laërtius.[5]
Athenaeuspreserves a geographically confused fragment[6]from Diogenes, having to do with a laurel grove along theHalys riverwhereLydianandBactriangirls perform sacred music forArtemisas the goddess ofMount Tmolus.[7]
References[edit]
- ^J. Radicke andFelix Jacoby,Die Fragmente Der Griechischen Historiker,edited by G. Schepens (Brill, 1999), pt. 4, fasc. 7, p. 195.
- ^For which see also David D. Leitao,The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature(Cambridge University Press, 2012), p. 66.
- ^Suda δ 1142,Diogenes.
- ^Radicke, p. 195.
- ^Diogenes Laërtius 6.80.
- ^Athenaeus,Deipnosophistae14.38.636.
- ^Albert de Jong,Traditions of the Magi: Zoroastrianism in Greek and Latin Literature(Brill, 1997), p. 284.
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