Sannyrion ( grc, Σαννυρίων) was an
Athenian
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...
comic poet
Ancient Greek comedy was one of the final three principal dramatic forms in the theatre of classical Greece (the others being tragedy and the satyr play). Athenian comedy is conventionally divided into three periods: Old Comedy, Middle Comedy, an ...
of the late 5th century BC, and a contemporary of
Diocles and
Philyllius, according to the
Suda. He belonged to the later years of
Old Comedy
Old Comedy (''archaia'') is the first period of the ancient Greek comedy, according to the canonical division by the Alexandrian grammarians.Mastromarco (1994) p.12 The most important Old Comic playwright is Aristophanes – whose works, with the ...
and the start of Middle Comedy.
Works
Sannyrion wrote the following works.
* ("Finally")
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* (The title could have been mistaken by Suda; reading a passage of Athenaeus strongly suggests that Suda mistook it for the play by Strattis mentioned above, ().)
[Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Sannyrion"]
In
Aristophanes
Aristophanes (; grc, Ἀριστοφάνης, ; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion ( la, Cydathenaeum), was a comic playwright or comedy-writer of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. Eleven of his for ...
' , Sannyrion,
Meletus Meletus ( el, Μέλητος; fl. 5th–4th century BCE) was an ancient Athenian Greek from the Pithus deme known for his prosecuting role in the trial and eventual execution of the philosopher Socrates.
Life
Little is known of Meletus' life beyon ...
, and
Cinesias are chosen as ambassadors from the poets to the shades below because they are so skinny.
[Athenaeus, '' Deipnosophistae'']
12.75
Hegelochus
Sannyrion is one of the sources for the story of
Hegelochus, an actor who was lampooned for a slight but comic mispronunciation while appearing in
Euripides
Euripides (; grc, Εὐριπίδης, Eurīpídēs, ; ) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars a ...
' ''
Orestes
In Greek mythology, Orestes or Orestis (; grc-gre, Ὀρέστης ) was the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, and the brother of Electra. He is the subject of several Ancient Greek plays and of various myths connected with his madness an ...
'' in 408 BC that ruined his career.
References
External links
Public and Performance in the Greek Theatreby Peter D. Arnott
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5th-century BC Athenians
Ancient Greek dramatists and playwrights
5th-century BC writers
Old Comic poets