Χιωνίδης

Chionides

Translated by David Whitehead29 Apr 2003Vetting: high5 revisions

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Athenian, a comic poet of Old Comedy; [the one] who they go as far as to call the protagonist of Old Comedy, [saying that] he produced a play eight years before the Persian Wars. His plays include the following: Hero [Author, Myth], Beggars, Persians or Assyrians.

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Χιωνίδης, Ἀθηναῖος, κωμικὸς τῆς ἀρχαίας κωμῳδίας· ὃν καὶ λέγουσι πρωταγωνιστὴν γενέσθαι τῆς ἀρχαίας κωμῳδίας, διδάσκειν δὲ ἔτεσιν ὀκτὼ πρὸ τῶν Περσικῶν. τῶν δραμάτων αὐτοῦ ἐστι καὶ ταῦτα· Ἥρως, Πτωχοί, Πέρσαι ἢ Ἀσσύριοι.

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Χιωνίδης · Chionides (χ 318) · Suda

*xiwni/dhs, *)aqhnai=os, kwmiko\s th=s a)rxai/as kwmw|di/as: o(\n kai\ le/gousi prwtagwnisth\n gene/sqai th=s a)rxai/as kwmw|di/as, dida/skein de\ e)/tesin o)ktw\ pro\ tw=n *persikw=n. tw=n drama/twn au)tou= e)sti kai\ tau=ta: *(/hrws, *ptwxoi/, *pe/rsai h)\ *)assu/rioi.

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