Agathon
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Agathon was a male writer from Classical Athens who lived in the fifth century BCE. Born in Athens, he died in Pella in 400 BCE. His dates of birth are recorded as either 448 BCE or 445 BCE. He wrote in Ancient Greek, which was also the language he spoke.
The author is described in several reference works, including the Pauly–Wissowa, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, and the 11th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica. Wikiquote lists several of his quotes in Ancient Greek. Additionally, he is referenced by 51 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 23 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, Last.fm, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1778
- Died
- 1837
- Works
- 11
Top works
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- Mémoires du baron Fain
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 519
- Total plays
- 1,034
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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Quotes
- “μόνου γὰρ αὐτοῦ καὶ θεὸς στερίσκεται,ἀγένητα ποιεῖν ἅσσ᾿ ἂν ᾖ πεπραγμένα.”
- “τέχνη τύχην ἔστερξε καὶ τύχη τέχνην.”
- “φαῦλοι βροτῶν γὰρ τοῦ πονεῖν ἡσσώμενοιθανεῖν ἐρῶσιν.”
- “τάχ᾿ ἄν τις εἰκὸς αὐτὸ τοῦτ᾿ εἶναι λέγοι,βροτοῖσι πολλὰ τυγχάνειν οὐκ εἰκότα.”
- “ἰδίας ὁδοὺς ζητοῦσι φιλόπονοι φύσεις.”
- “Ἀγάθων ἔφη· τὸν ἄρχοντα τριῶν δεῖ μεμνῆσθαι· πρῶτον ὅτι ἀνθρώπων ἄρχει, δεύτερον ὅτι νόμοις ἄρχει, τρίτον ὅτι οὐκ ἀεὶ ἄρχει.”
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Life and career
- Physical appearance
- Plato's epigram
- Known plays
- Quotations
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Sources
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thumb|This painting by Anselm Feuerbach re-imagines a scene from [[Plato's Symposium, in which the tragedian Agathon welcomes the drunken Alcibiades into his home. 1869.]]
Agathon (; ; ) was an Athenian tragic poet whose works have been lost. He is best known for his appearance in Plato's Symposium, which describes the banquet given to celebrate his obtaining a prize for his first tragedy at the Lenaia in 416. He is also a prominent character in Aristophanes' comedy the Thesmophoriazusae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Agathon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.