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Headword:
Lukophrôn
Adler number: lambda,827
Translated headword: Lykophron, Lycophron
Vetting Status: high
Translation: of Chalcis in Euboea;[1] son of Socles, and by adoption of
Lycus of Rhegium.[2] Grammarian and tragic poet; he is one of the seven who are named the Pleiad.[3] His tragedies are:
Aeolus;
Andromeda;
Aletes;
Aeolides;
Elephenor;
Heracles;
Suppliants;
Hippolytus;
Cassandreis;
Laius;
Marathonians;
Nauplius;
Oedipus (1 and 2);
Orphan;
Pentheus;
Pelopidae;
Allies;
Telegonus;
Chrysippus. Of these, the
Nauplius is a revision. He also wrote the so-called
Alexandra, the obscure poem.[4]
Greek Original:Lukophrôn, Chalkideus apo Euboias, huios Sôkleous, thesei de Lukou tou Rhêginou: grammatikos kai poiêtês tragôidiôn. esti goun heis tôn hepta hoitines Pleias ônomasthêsan. eisi de hai tragôidiai autou Aiolos, Andromeda, Alêtês, Aiolidês, Elephênôr, Hêraklês, Hiketai, Hippolutos, Kassandreis, Laïos, Marathônioi, Nauplios, Oidipous a#, b#, Orphanos, Pentheus, Pelopidai, Summachoi, Têlegonos, Chrusippos. diaskeuê d' estin ek toutôn ho Nauplios. egrapse kai tên kaloumenên Alexandran, to skoteinon poiêma.
Notes:
C4-3 BC. See generally RE Lykophron(8); OCD4 s.v.
Lycophron(2), on which see further below; TrGF 100.
[1] The suffix (for which cf.
epsilon 3801) distinguishes this place from homonyms in Epirus and elsewhere.
[2]
Lycus:
lambda 814.
[3] cf.
alpha 1127,
delta 1169,
omicron 253,
sigma 817,
sigma 860,
sigma 863,
tau 894,
phi 358.
[4] Modern scholarship, which shares this estimate of the
Alexandra, actually dissociates it from
Lycophron of Chalcis: see the OCD article.
Reference:
Simon Hornblower, Lycophron, Alexandra: Greek text, Translation, Commentary and Introduction (Oxford, Clarendon Press 2015)
Keywords: biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; mythology; poetry; tragedy
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 30 August 2003@10:39:11.
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