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and satyric dramas in the library; some ten years later he took up his residence at the court of Antigonus Gonatas, king of Macedonia. His reputation as a tragic poet was so high that he was allotted a place in the Alexandrian tragic Pleiad; we only know the title of one play (Astragalistae.) He also wrote short epics, epigrams and elegies, the considerable fragments of which show learning and eloquence. Meineke, Analecta Alexandrina (1853); Bergk, Poetae Lyrioi Graeci; Couat, La Poesie alexandrine (1882). Initial text from 1911 encyclopedia -- Please update as needed |
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