Strattis ( grc, Στράττις) was an Athenian comic poet of the

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 thei ...

. According to the

Suda The ''Suda'' or ''Souda'' (; grc-x-medieval, Σοῦδα, Soûda; la, Suidae Lexicon) is a large 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, formerly attributed to an author called Soudas (Σούδας) or Souidas ...

, he flourished later than Callias Schoenion. Therefore, it is likely that his poetry was performed at the 92nd

Olympiad An olympiad ( el, Ὀλυμπιάς, ''Olympiás'') is a period of four years, particularly those associated with the ancient and modern Olympic Games. Although the ancient Olympics were established during Greece's Archaic Era, it was not until ...

, that is, 412 BC. Strattis was a contemporary of

Sannyrion Sannyrion ( grc, Σαννυρίων) was an Athenian comic poet 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 and the start of Middle Comedy. Works ...

and

Philyllius Philyllius ( grc, Φιλύλλιος), also called Phillylius, Phlaeus, Philolaus, or Phillydeus, was an ancient Athenian comic poet. He was contemporary with Diocles and Sannyrion. He belonged to the latter part of the Old Comedy tradition and th ...

, both of whom were attacked in the extant fragments of his plays. The drama in which Philyllius was attacked was the ''Potamioi''. According to the scholiast of Aristophanes, this drama was performed before Aristophanes' ''

Ecclesiazusae ''Assemblywomen'' ( grc-gre, Ἐκκλησιάζουσαι ''Ekklesiazousai''; also translated as, ''Congresswomen'', ''Women in Parliament'', ''Women in Power'', and ''A Parliament of Women'') is a comedy written by the Greek playwright Aristo ...

''. Therefore, this could not be later than 394/3 BC. Also, in his ''Anthroporrhaistes'', Strattis attacked Hegelochus, the actor of the ''

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 and ...

'' of Euripides. Therefore this play would have been performed later than 408 BC, the year in which the ''Orestes'' was performed. Strattis was performing his works at the end of the 99th Olympiad, that is, 380 BC, when he attacked

Isocrates Isocrates (; grc, Ἰσοκράτης ; 436–338 BC) was an ancient Greek rhetorician, one of the ten Attic orators. Among the most influential Greek rhetoricians of his time, Isocrates made many contributions to rhetoric and education throu ...

on account of his fondness for Lagisca when he was far advanced in years.Harpocr. s. v. Λαγίσκα. Some authors call him, inaccurately, Strato. Some scholars believed the comic poets Strato and Strattis to be the same person, but this idea is now considered by most classicists as to be incorrect.

Surviving Titles and Fragments

The ''

'' gives a list of his works: *''The Human Orestes'' (Ἀνθρωπορραιστής) *''Atalante'' (Ἀταλάντη) *''Good Men'' or ''Disappearance of the Money'' (Ἀγαθοί ἤτοι Ἀργυρίου ἀφανισμός) *''Iphigeron'' (Ἰφιγέρων) *''Callippides'' (Καλλιππίδης) *''Cinesias'' (Κινησίας) *''Limnomedon'' (Λιμνομέδων) *''Macedonians'' or ''Pausanias'' (Μακεδόνες ἢ Παυσανίας) *''Medea'' (Μήδεια) *''Troilus'' (Τρωΐλος) *''Phoenician Women'' (Φοίνισσαι) *''Philoctetes'' (Φιλοκτήτης) *''Chrysippus'' (Χρύσιππος) *''Psychastae'' (Ψυχασταί) This list is not complete. Other writers mention four more plays: *''Zopyros Surrounded By Flames'' (Ζώπυρος Περικαιόμενος) *''Myrmidons'' (Μυρμιδόνες) *''Potamioi'' (Ποτάμιοι) *''Pytisos'' (Πυτίσιος)

References

*Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec. vol. i. pp. 221–236, 427, vol. ii. pp. 763, foil, Editio Minor, pp. 428, foil. ; *Bergk, Reliq. Com. Att. Ant. pp. 284, 285 ; *Clinton, F. H. vol. ii. In- trod. p. xliv. note r.

Studies

* Christian Orth, ''Strattis: die Fragmente. Ein Kommentar'' (Berlin: Verlag Antike, 2009) (Studia comica, 2). {{authority control Ancient Greek dramatists and playwrights 4th-century BC Athenians Old Comic poets