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Ἰοφῶν · Iophon (ι 451) · Suda

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Ἰοφῶν

Iophon

Translated by David Whitehead29 Aug 2001Vetting: high4 revisions

biography
comedy
gender and sexuality
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4 notes · 47 words

Translation

Of Athens↗, tragedian, legitimate son of Sophokles the tragic poet¹ out of Nikostrate; [Sophokles] also had an illegitimate son, Ariston, out of Theodoris of Sikyon↗.² Iophon produced 50 plays; they include Achilles, Telephos, Aktaion, Sack of Troy↗, Receiver, Bakchai, Pentheus,³ and certain others with his father Sophokles.⁴

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἰοφῶν, Ἀθηναῖος, τραγικός, υἱὸς Σοφοκλέους τοῦ τραγικοῦ γνήσιος ἀπὸ Νικοστράτης· γέγονε δὲ αὐτῷ καὶ νόθος υἱὸς Ἀρίστων ἀπὸ Θεοδωρίδος Σικυωνίας. δράματα δὲ Ἰοφῶν ἐδίδαξε νʹ· ὧν ἐστιν Ἀχιλλεύς, Τήλεφος, Ἀκταίων, Ἰλίου πέρσις, Δεξαμενός, Βάκχαι, Πενθεύς, καὶ ἄλλα τινὰ μετὰ τοῦ πατρὸς Σοφοκλέους.

Betacode

*)iofw=n, *)aqhnai=os, tragiko/s, ui(o\s *sofokle/ous tou= tragikou= gnh/sios a)po\ *nikostra/ths: ge/gone de\ au)tw=| kai\ no/qos ui(o\s *)ari/stwn a)po\ *qeodwri/dos *sikuwni/as. dra/mata de\ *)iofw=n e)di/dace n#: w(=n e)stin *)axilleu/s, *th/lefos, *)aktai/wn, *)ili/ou pe/rsis, *decameno/s, *ba/kxai, *penqeu/s, kai\ a)/lla tina\ meta\ tou= patro\s *sofokle/ous.

Notes (4)

C5 BCE. See generally TrGF vol 1 (edn.2, 1986) 132-5; OCD(4) s.v.
1See generally sigma 815. ↩
2For the younger Sophocles, son of this Ariston, see sigma 816. ↩
3The fact that six of these seven titles are attributed to the Athenian tragedian "Kleophon" at kappa 1730 seems enough to expose the latter name as a corruption: see the note there. ↩
4The suspicion that Sophocles had substantially written the plays of Iophon goes back to the late C5 itself: see Aristophanes, Frogs 73-79.

Neighbouring entries

ι449ἸουστῖνοςIoustinos, Justinus, Justin ι450ἸοῦστοςJustus, Iustus ι451ἸοφῶνIophon ι452Ἰοχέαιραarrow-pourer, arrow-shooter ι453ἸώIo

Revision history4 revisions · last 4 Aug 2014

4 Aug 2014Revised — David Whitehead
13 Jan 2013Revised — David Whitehead
1 Aug 2003cosmetics — David Whitehead
1 Aug 2003Revised — Catharine Roth
29 Aug 2001Translated — David Whitehead

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἰοφῶν (Adler number iota 451), trans. David Whitehead, 29 Aug 2001. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/iota/451

Translation by David Whitehead for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗