EPIC, LYRIC, AND DRAMATIC POETRY OF GREECE - THE RHAP- CHRONOLOGY OF THE DRAMA, FROM H. F. CLINTON'S FASTI HELLENICI. B.C. 546 535 525 Ol. 60 Hipponax, an Ephesian, a writer of iambics, flourished 61 Thespis first exhibited tragedy. Chœrilus first exhibited tragedy. Melanippides, a dithyrambic writer, flourished. 63 523 64 520 65 519 511 490 72 487 73 485 Institution of the xopòs ȧvdpâv. Epicharmus perfected comedy in Sicily, long before Chionides exhibited at Athens: he flourished in the reign of Hiero, and lived to the age of 97. Eschylus, aged 25, first exhibits. Birth of Sophocles. Eschylus present at Marathon: æt. 35. Chionides, an Athenian, a writer of the old comedy, first exhibits. Dinolochus, a Syracusan or Agrigentine. Epicharmus continues to write comedy. Myles, or Mylus, a comic poet, exhibits at Athens. 484 74 Eschylus gains the prize in tragedy. 483 Birth of Achæus, the tragic writer. Chœrilus had now exhibited tragedy 40 years; Phry 480 477 Birth of Euripides. The Naro of Epicharmus represented. 476 76 Phrynichus victor in tragedy. 472 468 467 Simonides, æt. 80, gains the prize ȧvòpŵv xopą. 77 Eschyli Пéporal. Eschylus gained the prize with the Phineus, Persæ, Glaucus Potniensis, and the Prometheus Ignifer, a satiric drama. 78 First tragic victory of Sophocles over Eschylus. One of the pieces exhibited was probably the ТpinтóλEμOS σατυρικός. Death of Simonides, æt. 90. 458 80 Eschyli 'Opeσreía; the Agamemnon, Choëphori, and 455 454 451 450 Eumenides. Death of Eschylus, æt. 69. Euripides exhibited his Пeλádes, æt. 25, and gained the third prize. Aristarchus, a writer of tragedies, of which he exhibited 70, and was twice successful; he lived more than 100 years. Cratinus, famous as a comic writer. 82 Ion of Chios began to exhibit tragedy. 448 83 438 437 436 435 434 432 Achæus and Sophocles exhibit tragedy. A decree to prohibit comedy. Sophocles was employed with Pericles in the Samian war. Sophocles becomes a general, æt. 57. The prohibition of comedy is repealed. 86 Cratinus, the comic poet, conquers. Three victories of Cratinus are on record after the repeal of the decree to prohibit comedy. He gained the second prize with the Xeμacóuevo, B. C. 425, and with the Zárupo, B. C. 424. And the first prize with the Пuтívη, B.C. 423. Phrynichus, the comic poet, first exhibited. Lysippus, the comic poet, gains the prize. 87 Hermippus prosecuted Aspasia - Callias. |