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Headword:
Autokratês
Adler number: alpha,4500
Translated headword: Autocrates, Autokrates
Vetting Status: high
Translation: An Athenian, a poet of Old Comedy. Amongst his plays [is] Drummers.[1] He also wrote many tragedies.
Greek Original:Autokratês, Athênaios, kômikos archaios. tôn dramatôn autou Tumpanistai. egrapse kai tragôidias pollas.
Notes:
See generally K.J. Dover in OCD(4) s.v. (p.214); Kassel-Austin, PCG 4.18f.
[1]
Hesychius under kappa3452 appears to give this title (the only one we have) as
*tumpani/striai ("Priestesses of Sabazius"), but the reading there is regarded as dubious. In its Suda form it is also the name of a play by
Sophocles.
Keywords: biography; comedy; geography; meter and music; religion; tragedy; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 1 August 2001@16:38:34.
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