Cleophon (poet)
Ancient Greek writer
Intro | Ancient Greek writer | |
Places | Greece | |
is | Writer Tragedy writer | |
Work field | Literature | |
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Cleophon (Greek: Kλεoφῶν, Kleophōn) was an Athenian tragic poet who flourished in the 4th century BC. The titles of eleven of his plays are given by the Suda: Acteon, Amphiaraos, Achilles, The Bacchantes, Dexamenus, Erigone, Thyestes, Leucippus, Mandroboulos, Persis, and Telephus. None of these plays are extant today; no fragments or quotations have come down to us.
He is referred to by Aristotle in Poetics and Rhetoric.