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Headword:
Iôn
Adler number: iota,487
Translated headword: Ion
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [
Ion,] of
Chios, tragedian and lyric poet and philosopher, son of Orthomenes, but also known as [son] of Xouthos.[1] He began to produce tragedies in the 82nd Olympiad.[2] There are 12 dramas of his, but some say 30, others 40.[3] He wrote concerning astronomy, and fictitious stories.[4] The comedian
Aristophanes jokingly calls him Aoios ["Morning Star"].[5]
When he had won the victory in tragedy at
Athens he gave each of the Athenians a jar of Chian [sc. wine].[6]
Iôn, Chios, tragikos kai lurikos kai philosophos, huios Orthomenous, epiklêsin de Xouthou. êrxato de tas tragôidias didaskein epi tês pb# olumpiados. dramata de autou ib#, hoi de l#, alloi de m# phasin. houtos egrapse peri meteôrôn, kai sunthetous logous. hon paizôn Aristophanês ho kômikos Aoion phêsi. houtos tragôidian nikêsas Athênêsin hekastôi tôn Athênaiôn edôke Chion keramion.
Notes:
OCD(4) s.v.
Ion(2).
Ion of
Chios (again in brief at
iota 489) was one of the most successful tragedians at
Athens, who also practiced other forms of poetry and wrote philosophical works in prose. The treatise
"On the Sublime" calls his plays faultless and elegant but less inspired than those of
Sophocles.
[1] Possibly so, though more probably this assertion conflates the
Ion in question here and his namesake the mythical eponym of the Ionians. For Xouthos see
xi 82.
[2] 452/1-449/8.
[3] Ten trilogies would make 30 tragedies or 40 dramas including satyr-plays. Perhaps 12 of them reached the Alexandrian library.
[4] Richard Bentley (1662-1742) says that this is a misinterpretation of what the
scholia say about dithyrambic vocabulary (as in
delta 1029):
Epistola ad Millium p. 328.
[5]
Aristophanes,
Peace 829, 835 (see web address 1); cf.
delta 1029.
[6] From
alpha 731.
Bentley, Richard, Epistola Ad Joannem Millium 1836.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 December 2000@22:06:10.
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