Dionysiades
Dionysiades of Tarsus was an ancient Greek tragic poet who lived in the time of Alexander the Great (second half of the 4th century BC). According to Strabo, he was the best of the tragic poets included in the so-called Alexandrian Pleiad. It is not certain whether he is identical with Dionysiades of Mallus in Cilicia, also a tragic poet, who wrote a work entitled Styles or Lovers of Comedy, "in which he describes (ἀπαγγέλλει) the styles of [comic] poets".
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Dionysiades
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- poet · writer
- Fields
- tragedy
- Languages
- Ancient Greek
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Dionysiades of Tarsus was an ancient Greek tragic poet who lived in the time of Alexander the Great (second half of the 4th century BC). According to Strabo, he was the best of the tragic poets included in the so-called Alexandrian Pleiad. It is not certain whether he is identical with Dionysiades of Mallus in Cilicia, also a tragic poet, who wrote a work entitled Styles or Lovers of Comedy, "in which he describes (ἀπαγγέλλει) the styles of [comic] poets".
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This work was perhaps the first attempt to distinguish and define the styles of Attic comic poets. The Suda mentions that Dionysiades of Mallus was a member of the Pleiad and his father was named Phylarchides.
The recorded working language is Ancient Greek. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are tragedy.
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- 1.F. Lübker, J. D. Van Hoëvell, Classisch Woordenboek van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, 1857, s.v. "Dionysiades", p. 281.
- 2.William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870, s.v. "Dionysiades (2)".
- 3."And the best tragic poet among those enumerated in the 'Pleias' was Dionysides", Strabo, Geographica, 14.5.15.
- 4.William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870, s.v. "Dionysiades (1)".
- 5.Suida, s.v. Διονυσιάδης.
- 6.Rudolf Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship: from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age, Oxford, 1968, p. 160.
- 7.Suda, delta, 1169
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