Phrynichus (
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Phrynichus (tragic poet)
Phrynichus (; grc-gre, Φρύνιχος), son of Polyphradmon and pupil of Thespis, was one of the earliest of the Greece, Greek tragedy, tragedians. Some ancients regarded him as the real founder of tragedy. Phrynichus is said to have died in Sic ...
or Phrynichus Tragicus (6th-5th century BC), abbreviated in lexica as
hryn.Trag. pioneer of Greek tragedy, most famous for ''The Fall of Miletus''
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Phrynichus (comic poet) Phrynichus (; grc-gre, Φρύνιχος) was a poet of the Old Attic comedy and a contemporary of Aristophanes. His first comedy was exhibited in 429 BC. He composed ten plays, of which the ''Recluse'' was exhibited at the City Dionysia in 414 alon ...
or Phrynichus Comicus (late 5th century BC), abbreviated in lexica as
hryn.Com. writer of old Attic comedy
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Phrynichus (oligarch) Phrynichus (Ancient Greek: Φρύνιχος; died 411 BC) was an Athenian general (''strategos'') during the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), who supported the Athenian coup of 411 BC which briefly replaced the Athenian democracy by an oligarchy.
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(died 411 BC), Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War who took a leading part in establishing the oligarchy of the Four Hundred
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Phrynichus Arabius
Phrynichus Arabius (; grc-gre, Φρύνιχος Ἀράβιος, lit. 'Phrynichus “the Arab”') or Phrynichus of Bithynia ( grc-gre, Φρύνιχος ὁ Βιθυνός) was a grammarian of the Greek language who flourished in 2nd century Bith ...
or Phrynichus Atticista (2nd century AD), abbreviated in lexica as
hryn. grammarian and rhetorician
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''Phrynichus'' (arachnid), a genus in the order Amblypygi
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