of Corcyra, son of Philotas, tragedian and priest of Dionysus active under
Ptolemy Philadelphus.[1] And the Philiscian meter[2] was named after him, since he indulged in it liberally. He is among the second rank of tragedians, who are seven and were nicknamed the 'Pleiad'.[3] His tragedies number 42.[4]
Philiskos, Kerkuraios, Philôtou huios, tragikos kai hiereus tou Dionusou epi tou Philadelphou Ptolemaiou gegonôs. kai ap' autou to Philiskion metron prosêgoreuthê, epeiper autôi enedapsileueto. esti de tês deuteras taxeôs tôn tragikôn, hoitines eisin z# kai eklêthêsan Pleias. hai de tragôidiai autou eisi mb#.
The Suda's headword is Philiskos (
Philiscus), but Philikos (Philicus), in Hephaestion (cf. n. 2 below) appears to be the more authentic -- making him out of alphabetical order here. On this issue and in general, see: RE s.v. Philiskos;
Kleine Pauly, Nachtrage s.v. Philiskos; OCD(4) s.v. Philicus; Snell, TrGF 104; R. Pfeiffer,
History of Classical Scholarship (Oxford, 1968) 157; P.M. Fraser,
Ptolemaic Alexandria (Oxford, 1972) vol. 1, 651-652.
[1] Philadelphus reigned 285-246 BCE. The dates of
Philiscus are unknown, but an epitaph (Supplementum Hellenisticum 980) by an unknown Hellenistic poet survives.
[2] The stichic choriambic hexameter (cf. Hephaestion [p. 30 Consbruch]).
[3] See generally Pfeiffer 119, 160-161; for other members of the 'Pleiad' cf.
alpha 1127,
delta 1169,
lambda 827,
omicron 253,
sigma 860,
sigma 863,
tau 894.
[4] No titles or fragments of these are preserved, though a
Themistokles has been conjectured. Substantial fragments are preserved of his
Hymn to Demeter (Supplementum Hellenisticum frs. 676-680), addressed to the grammatikoi.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, status) on 19 April 2004@02:11:18.
Catharine Roth (coded titles) on 19 April 2004@13:11:28.
David Whitehead (added alternative headwords; augmented primary note, and keywords; other cosmetics) on 20 April 2004@08:14:32.
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaking) on 10 December 2013@05:54:56.
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