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Headword:
Achaios
Adler number: alpha,4683
Translated headword: Achaeus, Achaios
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of Pythodorus or Pythodorides, an Eretrian, a tragedian, he was born in the 74th Olympiad[1] and he staged 44 plays, though some have recorded 30, others 24; he was victorious with [sc. only] 1. He was younger than
Sophocles by a bit.[2] [His plays] were performed jointly with [those of]
Euripides from the 83rd Olympiad.[3]
Achaios, Puthodôrou ê Puthodôridou, Eretrieus, tragikos, gegone kata tên od# Olumpiada kai dramata edidaxe md#, hoi de l# historêkasin, alloi kd#: enikêse de a#. ên de neôteros Sophokleous oligôi tini. epedeiknunto de koinêi sun kai Euripidêi apo tês pg# Olumpiados.
Notes:
Not to be confused with his later homonym
alpha 4682. See generally OCD(4) p.5, under '
Achaeus(2)'.
[1] 484-481.
[2]
Sophocles was born in the mid 490s.
[3] 448-445. "Jointly" evidently means "contemporaneously".
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 June 2001@02:23:22.
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