Strattis () was an Athenian comic poet of the

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. According to the

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, he flourished later than

Callias Schoenion Callias (), sometimes called by the nickname Schoenion (), was a poet of the Old Comedy. Callias is best known for a few extant fragments of a comedy, ''The Letter Tragedy''. This comedy featured a 24-piece chorus that consisted of the 24 letters ...

. Therefore, it is likely that his poetry was performed at the 92nd

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, that is, 412 BC. Strattis was a contemporary of Sannyrion and Philyllius, 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' ''

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

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'' 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

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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

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'' 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 Athenian dramatists and playwrights 4th-century BC Athenians Old Comic poets 4th-century BC Greek poets