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Headword:
Phormos
Adler number: phi,609
Translated headword: Phormos, Phormus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Syracusan, writer of comedy, contemporary of
Epicharmus,[1] friendly with the Sicilian tyrant Gelon[2] and tutor to his children. He wrote 6 dramas, which are as follows:
Admetos,
Alkinous,
Alkyones,
The Sack of Troy [or]
The Horse[3],
Kepheus or
Kephalaia or
Perseus.[4] He was the first to use a full-length garment and a booth of purple skins.[5]
Athenaeus in the
Deipnosophists mentions another play also, the
Atalanta.[6]
Greek Original:Phormos, Surakousios, kômikos, sunchronos Epicharmôi, oikeios de Gelôni tôi turannôi Sikelias kai tropheus tôn paidôn autou. egrapse dramata z#, ha esti tauta, Admêtos, Alkinous, Alkuones, Iliou porthêsis, Hippos, Kêpheus ê Kephalaia ê Perseus. echrêsato de prôtos endumati podêrei kai skênêi dermatôn phoinikôn. memnêtai de kai heterou dramatos Athênaios en tois Deipnosophistais, Atalantês.
Notes:
See generally A. Koerte in RE 20.1, cols 540-541, under 'Phormis'; K.J. Dover in OCD(4) 1141, under 'Phormis (or Phormus)'; Kassel-Austin, PCG vol. I pp.174-176. The Suda's version of the name is also found in
Athenaeus (see note 6 below) and
Themistius (Or. 27.337b), who knows of him from
Aristotle (
Poetics 1449b6?). An Arcadian named Phormis of Maenalus, who fought as a general in
Sicily for Gelon and Hieron (
Pausanias 5.27.1,7), was perhaps confused with him (if not the same man).
[1]
epsilon 2766.
[2] Tyrant of
Gela 491-485 and of Syracuse 485-478.
[3]
The [sc. Trojan] Horse and
The Sack of Troy appear be alternative names for the same play. The number of his plays is thus six including the
Atalanta. See Pickard-Cambridge 289 n.2.
[4] The last three titles refer to the same play. Kepheus was the father of Andromeda, who was rescued by Perseus after he had severed the head of the
gorgon Medusa; cf.
pi 1786.
[5] The
skhnh/ was a tent or booth-like structure (later a stage building) used both as a backdrop to the stage and as a place where an actor could change and make his entrance and exit. See e.g.
Plato Laws 817C (web address 1).
[6]
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 14.652A [14.66 Kaibel]; plural there, in fact.
Reference:
A.W. Pickard-Cambridge, Dithyramb, Tragedy and Comedy, 2nd ed. rev. T.B.L. Webster. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1962, pp.231-232, 289
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: biography; children; chronology; clothing; comedy; epic; geography; history; mythology; philosophy; poetry; stagecraft; tragedy
Translated by: Tony Natoli on 16 April 2001@01:40:29.
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