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SOSITHEUS (c. 28o B.C.)

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 435 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SIV-SOU
SOSITHEUS (c. 28o B.C.) , Greek tragic poet, of
Alexandria
  Troas, a member of the Alexandrian " pleiad." He must have resided at some time in Athens, since
Diogenes
  Laertius tells us (vii. 5, 4) that he attacked the Stoic Cleanthes on the stage, and was hissed off by the
audience
 . As Suidas also calls him a Syracusan, it is conjectured that he belonged to the literary circle at the
court
  of
Hiero
  II. According to an epigram of Dioscorides in the Greek
Anthology
  (Anth. Pal. vii. 707) he restored the satyric drama in its
original
  form. A considerable fragment is extant of his
pastoral
  play
Daphnis
  or Lityerses, in which the Sicilian shepherd, in
search
  of his love Pimplea, is brought into connexion with the Phrygian reaper, son of Midas, who slew all who unsuccessfully competed with him in reaping his corn. Heracles came to the aid of
Daphnis
  and slew Lityerses.
See O. Crusius s.v. Lityerses in Roscher's Lexikon der griechischen and rOmischen Mythologie. The fragment of twenty-one lines in Nauck's Tragicorum graecorum fragmenta apparently contains the beginning of the drama. Two lines from the Aethlius (probably the traditional first king of Elis, father of Endymion) are quoted by Stobaeus (Flor. li. 23).


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