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Headword:
*neofrw=n
h)\
*neofw=n
Adler number: nu,218
Translated headword: Neophron or Neophon
Vetting Status: high
Translation: of
Sikyon,[1] tragedian. The
Medea of
Euripides is by him, they say.[2] He was the first to bring onto [the stage] slave-tutors[3] and torture of slaves. He produced 120 tragedies. Subsequently he associated with Alexander of Macedon, and, because he was a friend of the philosopher Callisthenes, Alexander killed him too, together with Kallisthenes, by mutilation.[4]
*neofrw=n h)\ *neofw=n, *sikuw/nios, tragiko/s: ou(= fasin ei)=nai th\n tou= *eu)ripi/dou *mh/deian: o(\s prw=tos ei)sh/gage paidagwgou\s kai\ oi)ketw=n ba/sanon. e)di/dace de\ tragw|di/as rk#. sunh=n de\ ta\ meta\ tau=ta *)aleca/ndrw| tw=| *makedo/ni, kai\ dio/ti fi/los h)=n *kallisqe/nei tw=| filoso/fw|, su\n e)kei/nw| kai\ au)to\n a)nei=len ai)kismoi=s.
Notes:
C5/4 BCE; OCD4
Neophron (the authentic version of the name).
[1] In the NE Peloponnese.
[2] Authorities for this claim are cited in one of the hypotheses (brief introductions) to the
Medea. Modern scholars concede, from comparative study of the two plays (that of
Neophron preserved in fragments), a close link of some kind; but debate continues as to which was the model for the other.
[3] See generally
pi 846.
[4] For Callisthenes of Olynthos, nephew of
Aristotle, see generally
kappa 240 - where "Nearchos the tragedian" is mentioned as his fellow-victim of Alexander in 328/7 BCE. See generally A.B. Bosworth,
Conquest and Empire: the reign of Alexander the Great (Cambridge 1988) 117-119. But whatever the name of this man, chronology rules out his being the tragedian with whom the entry has begun.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 4 December 2001@05:55:39.
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