Ἀγάθων
Agathon
Translated by William Hutton1 Apr 2001Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
A proper name. He was a tragic poet; but he was slandered for effeminacy. Aristophanes [writes]:1 "Where is Agathon?" -- "He's gone and left me." -- "Where on earth is the wretch?" -- "At a banquet of the blessed." This Agathon was good by nature, "missed by his friends" and brilliant at the dinner table. They say also that the Symposium of Plato was set at a dinner party of his, with many philosophers introduced all together. A comic poet [sic] of the school of Socrates. He was lampooned in comedy for womanliness.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀγάθων· ὄνομα κύριον. τραγικὸς δὲ ἦν· διεβέβλητο δὲ ἐπὶ μαλακίᾳ. Ἀριστοφάνης· Ἀγάθων δὲ ποῦ 'στιν; ἀπολιπών μ' οἴχεται. ποῖ γῆς ὁ τλήμων; ἐς μακάρων εὐωχίαν. οὗτος ὁ Ἀγάθων ἀγαθὸς ἦν τὸν τρόπον, ποθεινὸς τοῖς φίλοις καὶ τὴν τράπεζαν λαμπρός. φασὶ δὲ ὅτι καὶ Πλάτωνος Συμπόσιον ἐν ἑστιάσει αὐτοῦ γέγραπται, πολλῶν ἅμα φιλοσόφων παραχθέντων. κωμῳδιοποιὸς Σωκράτους διδασκαλείου. ἐκωμῳδεῖτο δὲ εἰς θηλύτητα.
Betacode
*)aga/qwn: o)/noma ku/rion. tragiko\s de\ h)=n: diebe/blhto de\ e)pi\ malaki/a|. *)aristofa/nhs: *)aga/qwn de\ pou= 'stin; a)polipw/n m' oi)/xetai. poi= gh=s o( tlh/mwn; e)s maka/rwn eu)wxi/an. ou(=tos o( *)aga/qwn a)gaqo\s h)=n to\n tro/pon, poqeino\s toi=s fi/lois kai\ th\n tra/pezan lampro/s. fasi\ de\ o(/ti kai\ *pla/twnos *sumpo/sion e)n e(stia/sei au)tou= ge/graptai, pollw=n a(/ma filoso/fwn paraxqe/ntwn. kwmw|diopoio\s *swkra/tous didaskalei/ou. e)kwmw|dei=to de\ ei)s qhlu/thta.
Notes (1)
- C5 BCE; OCD(4) s.v. (pp.37-7); TrGF 39. See also under alpha 125.↩
- 1Aristophanes, Frogs 83-85 (web address 1), with scholion; dialogue between Herakles and Dionysos. The phrase "missed by his friends", which the lexicographer uses below, is from the same source.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- α125ἈγαθώνιοςAgathonios, AgathoniusA proper name. [The man] who was king of Tartessos. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "Agathon's pipe-playing": the soft and relaxed [kind]; alternatively that which is neither loose nor harsh, but temperate and very…
- δ858Διδασκαλεῖονteaching-place[didaskalei=on means] a school. But didaska/lion [is] the actual thing one learns.
- δ1547Δρύοχοιstocks[Meaning] pegs, the ones which are placed in a ship while it is being built. But by a misuse of language [it also denotes] the proems. Aristophanes [writes]: Agathon is beginning "to put in the stocks, the beginnings of…
- χ403Χορικόςchorikos, choricus, chorus-leader[Meaning] he who leads out the chorus. Such a one was Agathon, who used to create dramatic songs and act them out himself; therefore they are also called "choral" [songs].
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