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Headword: *fru/nixos
Adler number: phi,765
Translated headword: Phrynichos, Phrynichus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

Son of Melanthas; Athenian, tragic poet. His plays include the following: Andromeda, Erigone. He also created Pyrrhics [war-dances].
[Note] that the Athenians fined Phrynichus a thousand [sc. drachmas] after he had depicted the capture of Miletus in a tragedy.[1]

Greek Original:

*fru/nixos, *melanqa=, *)aqhnai=os, tragiko/s. e)/sti de\ tw=n drama/twn au)tou= kai\ ta/de: *)androme/da, *)hrigo/nh. e)poi/hse kai\ *purri/xas. o(/ti *fru/nixon *)aqhnai=oi xili/ais e)zhmi/wsan, a(/lwsin *milhsi/wn tragw|dh/santa.

Notes:

C6/5 BCE. See generally OCD(4) s.v. Phrynichus(1), and already phi 762. For the present material cf. the scholia to Aristophanes, Wasps 1490 (web address 1); and see Herodotus 6.21 (web address 2) for the original version of the Miletus story.
[1] Perhaps a fragment of Aelian (so Adler); cf. in any event Aelian, Varia Historia 13.17.

Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; comedy; economics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; meter and music; mythology; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 29 October 2003@09:10:20.
Vetted by:

Catharine Roth (added links, set status) on 25 January 2004@01:48:21.
Catharine Roth (restored keywords accidentally lost) on 25 January 2004@01:50:00.
David Whitehead (another note) on 25 January 2004@03:40:19.
Catharine Roth (fixed links, raised status) on 10 September 2011@11:43:28.
David Whitehead on 18 December 2013@06:54:46.
David Whitehead on 7 August 2014@04:00:50.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 31 October 2014@23:56:39.

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