Pherecrates (Greek: Φερεκράτης) was a Greek poet of Athenian Old Comedy, and a rough contemporary of Cratinus, Crates and Aristophanes. He was victorious...

dated to the fifth century BC, in a comedy titled The Miners, written by Pherecrates. The ancient sources provide contradictory accounts on whether the soup...

Archestratus, Aeschylus, Steischorus, Epicharmus, Nikophon, Aristophanes and Pherecrates. In The Deipnosophists, Athenaeus describes enkrides as "cakes boiled...

ISBN 0-19-869117-3. Storey, Ian C., Fragments of Old Comedy, Volume II: Diopeithes to Pherecrates, edited and translated by Ian C. Storey, Loeb Classical Library No. 514...

420 BC) Aristomenes, between 431 and 388 BC Telecleides 5th century BC Pherecrates 420 BC Plato Diocles of Phlius Sannyrion Philyllius, 394 BC Hipparchus...

Euphonius 450 BC - Crates 446 BC - Callias 43? BC - Cratinus 437 BC - Pherecrates 435 BC - Hermippus 427 BC - Unknown; Aristophanes took 2nd place with...

mentions here, in each case by the Old Men with approval as a misogynist. Pherecrates: A contemporary comic poet, he is quoted by Lysistrata as the author...

younger than Diagoras of Melos. He was a contemporary of the comic poet Pherecrates. He lived for some time at the court of Archelaus of Macedon, and died...

learned men about the soul. In the subsequent two books, a man named Pherecrates argued for the non-existence of the soul. On the Destruction of Men (Latin:...

ISBN 0-674-99615-1 L513) Volume I. Alcaeus to Diocles L514) Volume II. Diopeithes to Pherecrates L515) Volume III. Philonicus to Xenophon. Adespota L132) Volume I. Aspis...

823. Aristophanes, Knights, 1347–1348 and scholia. Pausanias, 7.22.6. Pherecrates fr.70 PCG apud Athenaeus, 13.612a and 15.687a. Aristophanes, Birds, 1549–1551...

411 BC) The Frogs (405 BC) Assemblywomen (c. 392 BC) Plutus (388 BC) Pherecrates 420 BC Diocles of Phlius Sannyrion Philyllius, 394 BC Hipparchus Archippus...

preserved in the Etymologicum Genuinum; other plays of that name by Pherecrates and Plato Comicus are attested, and it is unclear whether all three are...

Lenaia, first probably in the early 430s (IG II2 2325. 121; just before Pherecrates and Hermippus). He was still competing in 423 BC, when his Pytine took...

affectations are repeatedly attacked by the comic poets, especially Pherecrates and Aristophanes. Among the innovations which he is said to have made...

Lexicon. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 16. ISBN 0-19-864226-1. Pherecrates, 87; Dieuchidas, 2 Martin Nilsson."Die Geschichte der Griechische Religion"...

poet who probably flourished about the time of Alexander the Great. Pherecrates (5th century BC), Athenian Old Comedy poet and rough contemporary of...

Hegemon of Thasos Herodas Ion of Chios Iophon Menander Neophron Nicochares Pherecrates Philemon (poet) Phrynichus (comic poet) Phrynichus (tragic poet) Plato...

only fragments survive (fragments 14–22 K-A), and he was considered by Pherecrates to have had a corrupting influence on dithyrambic poetry (fragment 155...

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