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Encyclopedia Britannica



SOPHRON

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 429 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SIV-SOU
SOPHRON , of Syracuse, writer of mimes, flourished about 430 B.C. He was the author of
prose
  dialogues in the Doric dialect, containing both male and female characters, some serious, others humorous in style, and depicting scenes from the daily
life
  of the Sicilian Greeks. Although in
prose
 , they were regarded as poems; in any case they were not intended for stage representation. They were written in pithy and popular language, full of
proverbs
  and colloquialisms. Plato is said to have introduced them into Athens and to have made use of them in his dialogues; according to Sufdas, they were Plato's constant companions, and he even slept with them under his
pillow
 . Some
idea
  of their general
character
  may be gathered from the 2nd and 15th idylls of Theocritus, which are said to have been imitated from the 'AitOrptai and 'IaO tt6. ovoai of his Syracusan predecessor. Their
influence
  is also to be traced in the satires of Persius. The fragments will be found in H. L.
Ahrens
 's De graecae linguae dialectis (1843), ii. (app.). Latest edition by C. J. Botzon (1867); see also his De Sophrone et Xenarcho mimographis (1856).


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