Sositheus
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- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Classical Athens
- Place of birth
- Syracuse
- Occupation
- poet
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
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- date of death
- 0300-01-01
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- Pauly–Wissowa
- date of birth
- 0300-00-00
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- 0300-00-00
- writing language
- Ancient Greek
- member of
- Alexandrian Pleiad
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Sositheus (Ancient Greek: Σωσίθεος, c. 280 BC), a Greek tragic poet from Alexandria Troas, was a member of the Alexandrian "pleiad".
He must have resided at some time in Athens, since Diogenes Laërtius tells us that he attacked the Stoic Cleanthes on the stage, and was hissed off by the audience. As the Suda also calls him a Syracusan, it is conjectured that he belonged to the literary circle at the court of Hiero II.
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