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Choerilus (other)
Choerilus may refer to: * Choerilus (playwright), Greek writer of tragedies * Choerilus of Iasus Choerilus of Iasus ( grc-gre, Χοιρίλος) was an epic poet of Iasus in Caria, who lived in the 4th century BC. He accompanied Alexander the Great on his campaigns as court-poet. He is well known from the passages in Horace according to which ..., Greek epic poet * Choerilus of Samos, Greek epic poet {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choerilus (playwright)
Choerilus ( grc-gre, Χοιρίλος) was an Athenian tragic poet, who exhibited plays as early as 524 BC. He was born in 546 BC. He died around 460 BC (about 86 years old). Choerilus started writing tragedies when he was 22 years old. He staged 160 plays and won the prize 13 times. His works are all lost; only Pausanias mentions a play by him entitled ''Alope'' (a mythological personage who was the subject of dramas by Euripides and Carcinus). cites Pausanias vol. i. p. 14. He lived in Athens for most of his life. Biography Choerilus was said to have competed with Aeschylus, Pratinas and even Sophocles. According to Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, however, the rival of Sophocles was a son of Choerilus, who bore the same name. His reputation as a writer of satyr plays is attested in the line: ἡνίκα μὲν Βασιλεὺς ἦν Χοιρίλος ἐν Σατύροις. Back in the days when old Choerilus over the Satyrs was king. The Choerilean metre (a catalectic hexameter), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choerilus Of Iasus
Choerilus of Iasus ( grc-gre, Χοιρίλος) was an epic poet of Iasus in Caria, who lived in the 4th century BC. He accompanied Alexander the Great on his campaigns as court-poet. He is well known from the passages in Horace according to which he received a piece of gold for every good verse he wrote in celebration of the glorious deeds of his master. The quality of his verses may be estimated from the remark attributed to Alexander, that he would rather be the Thersites of Homer than the Achilles of Choerilus. The epitaph on Sardanapalus Sardanapalus (; sometimes spelled Sardanapallus) was, according to the Greek writer Ctesias, the last king of Assyria, although in fact Ashur-uballit II (612–605 BC) holds that distinction. Ctesias' book ''Persica'' is lost, but we know of its ..., said to have been translated from the Chaldean, notes quoted in Athenaeus, viii. p. 336 is generally supposed to be by Choerilus. References Sources * In this article, he is the third poet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |