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PHRYNE , Greek courtesan, lived in the 4th century n.c. Her eal name was Mnesarete, but owing to her complexion she was called Phryne (toad), a name given to other courtesans. She was born at Thespiae in Boeotia, but seems to have lived at Athens. She acquired so much wealth by her extraordinary beauty that she offered to rebuild the walls of Thebes, which had been destroyed by Alexander the Great
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See Athenaeus, pp. 558, 567, 583, 585, 590, 591; Aelian, Var. Hist. ix. 32 ; Pliny, Nat. Hist. xxxiv. 71. PHRYNICHUS-1. Son of Polyphradmon and pupil of Thespis, one of the earliest of the Greek tragedians. Some of the ancients, indeed, regarded him as the real founder of tragedy. He gained his first poetical victory in 51I B.C. His famous play, the Capture of Miletus, was probably composed shortly after the conquest of that city by the Persians. The audience was moved to tears, the poet was fined for reminding the Athenians of their misfortunes, and it was decreed that no play on the subject should be produced again. In 476 Phrynichus was successful with the Phoenissae, so called from the Phoenician women who formed the chorus, which celebrated the defeat of Xerxes at Salamis (48o). Themistocles acted as choragus, and one of the objects of the play was to remind the Athenians of his great deeds. The Persians of Aeschylus (472) was an imitation of the Phoenissae. Phrynichus is said to have died in Sicily. Some of the titles of his plays, Danaides, Actaeon
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Fragments in A. Nauck, Tragicorum graecor+_sm fragmenta (1887). 2. A poet of the Old Attic comedy and a contemporary of Aristophanes. His first comedy was exhibited in 429 B.C. He Fragments in T. Kock, Comicorum atticorum fragmenta (188o). 3. PHRYNICIIUS ARABIUS, a grammarian of Bithynia, lived in the 2nd century A.D. According to Suidas he was the author of (I) an Atticist, or On Attic Words, in two books; (2) Ti.BEtpwv ovveyay77, a collection of subjects for discussion; (3) Eo/ivr1.lt0j irapavKevi7, or Sophistical Equipment, in forty
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Editions of the 'Rani, with valuable notes, have been published by C. A, Lobeck (182o) and W. G. Rutherford (1881) ; Lobeck devotes his attention chiefly to the later, Rutherford to the earlier usages noticed by Phrynichus. See also J. Brenous, De Phrynicho Atticista (1895). 4. An Athenian general in the Peloponnesian War. He took a leading part in establishing the oligarchy of the Four Hundred at Athens in 411 B.C., and was assassinated in the same year (Thucydides viii.). End of Article: PHRYNE If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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