Aleksid ( other Greek Ἄλεξις , about 375 BC , Furies (now Calabria, Italy) - 275 BC ) - an ancient Greek poet, playwright, comedian, representative of an average Attic comedy . According to late antique evidence, he wrote 245 plays, mainly comedies [1] , mostly preserved only in names and fragments, some of which are relatively large [2] . Alexid first brought out on the Athenian stage the parasite figure inherited from the comedy Epicharma . In the comedy "Tarentins" Alexis in a comic form portrayed the followers of Pythagoreanism .
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Biography
Born at about 375 BC e. in Furies (now Calabria, Italy), moved to Athens at an early age, where his family soon gained citizenship status.
According to Plutarch, he lived 106 years and five months, enjoyed great fame and respect during his lifetime, and died right on the stage, once again being crowned for winning a creative contest; according to the Byzantine encyclopedia of the Court , he was the uncle on the father of the playwright Menander and wrote 245 comedies, of which only 130 titles of his plays and 345 passages survived to this day [3] .
Names of Alexis Pieces
- Asklepioklid
- Winegrower
- Women power
- Warrior
- Galatea
- Dropida
- Helmsman
- Lockers
- Milcon
- Minos
- Blind
- Pamphila
- Parasite
- Pythagorean
- Dancer
- Odysseus weaving
- Seven vs. Thebes
- Tarentines
- Drunk by mandrake
- Barber
- Eretrian
Literature
- Brief Encyclopedia of Literature. T.1. M., 1962. S.144-145
- Arnott, W. Geoffrey . Alexis: The Fragments. A Commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Fragment Editions
- Theodor Kock, Comicorum Atticorum fragmenta, II / 1. Leipzig, Teubner, 1884, p. 297-408.
- Rudolf Kassel & Colin Austin , Poetae comici Graeci, vol. II. Berlin, W. de Gruyter, 1991, p. 21-1
Notes
- ↑ I.F. Annensky . Theater Euripides / comp., Sub. text, comment. V. Gitina; entry Art. M. L. Gasparova. - St. Petersburg: Hyperion, 2007 .-- S. 455. - 528 p. - (Antique Library of Hyperion). - ISBN 9785893321388 .
- ↑ Ancient culture. Literature, theater, art, philosophy, science: Dictionary-guide / compilation and general. ed. V.N. Yarho. - 2nd rev. and add. ed .. - M .: Labyrinth, 2002 .-- 352 p. - P. 25. - ISBN 5876041459 .
- ↑ S.I. Sobolevsky . Aristophanes and his time . - Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1957. - 418 p.
- This article (section) contains text taken (translated) from the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica , which went into the public domain .