Cratinus Iunior
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- tlg0435
- Tlg id:
- tlg0435
- Alt id:
- tlg0435
- Name:
- Cratinus Iunior
- Alt parts:
- Iunior
- Dates:
- 4. Jh. v. Chr
- Alt names:
- Κρατῖνος; Cratinus, the Younger; Cratinos; Cratinus Junior, Comic.; Kratinos, der Jüngere, 4. Jh. v. Chr; Kratinos, ho Neōteros, 4. Jh. v. Chr; Kratinos, Komödiendichter, 4. Jh. v. Chr; Cratinus, Comicus, 4. Jh. v. Chr; Kratinos, Dichter der Mittleren Komödie, 4. Jh. v. Chr; Cratino; Cratinus Junior, Comicus; Cratin. Jun.
- Field of activity:
- Comic Poet
- Notes:
- PAN; Griech. Komödiendichter der Mittleren Komödie; Middle Comedy; TLG Canon of Greek Authors and Works, Third Edition, pg. 110; Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol 1 ,
1867, p. 888: "Cratinus the Younger, an Athenian comic poet of the middle comedy, was a contemporary
of Plato the philosopher (Diog. Laert. iii. 28,) and of Corydus (Athen. vi. p. 241), and therefore
flourished during the middle of the 4th century B.C....."; Brill's New Pauly: Attic comedy writer of the 4th cent. BC (fr. eight
and 10 point to the second half of the cent.). Of eight surviving titles, four suggest
mythological subjects (Ὀμφάλη/‘Omphale’; Χείρων/ ‘Cheiron’; Γίγαντες/‘The Giants’ and
Τιτᾶνες/‘The Titans’ may refer to the same play), the others hint at typical topics of the New
Comedy: Θηρωμένη (‘The Hunted’); Ταραντῖνοι (‘The Citizens of Tarentum’); Ψευδυποβολιμαῖος
(‘The Wrongly Accused One’); Πυθαγορίζουσα (‘The Disciple of Pythagoras’) points to a mockery
of philosophers (cf. the mockery of Plato in fr. 10).
- Author info:
- Worldcat Identities
- Smith's Dictionary
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