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Headword:
*krati=nos
Adler number: kappa,2344
Translated headword: Kratinos, Cratinus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of Kallimedes; an Athenian; a writer of comedy. His style was brilliant, but he was addicted to drinking[1] and a slave to the love of boys.
He belonged to the Old Comedy.
He wrote 21 plays, and won with 9.[2]
Greek Original:*krati=nos, *kallimh/dous, *)aqhnai=os, kwmiko/s: lampro\s to\n xarakth=ra, filopo/ths de\ kai\ paidikw=n h(tthme/nos. h)=n de\ th=s a)rxai/as kwmw|di/as. e)/graye de\ dra/mata ka#, e)ni/khse de\ q#.
Notes:
A contemporary of
Aristophanes (C5 BC); see generally K.J. Dover in OCD(4) p.391.
[1] cf.
kappa 2216, which adds incontinence.
[2] In all, 27 titles are attested; but the nine victories (six Dionysia, 3 Lenaia) are documentarily corroborated.
Kassel R. and C. Austin (eds.), Poetae comici Graeci (PCG), Berlin and N.Y.: W. de Gruyter, 1983- . (The testimonia and fragments of Kratinos are in v.4, pp.112-337)
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; ethics; food; gender and sexuality; geography; poetry
Translated by: Tony Natoli on 20 October 2001@03:00:56.
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