Agathon
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Agathon was an Athenian tragic poet whose works have been lost. He is best known for his appearance in Plato's Symposium, which describes the banquet given to celebrate his obtaining a prize for his f
This painting by Anselm Feuerbach re-imagines a scene from Plato's Symposium, in which the tragedian Agathon welcomes the drunken Alcibiades into his home. 1869.
Choerilus of Samos
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Choerilus of Samos was an epic poet of Samos, who flourished at the end of the 5th century BC.
A 2nd-century CE title-tag for bearing the three titles of Choerilus' epic on the Persian War: Barbarica, Medica and Persica (P.Oxy. XI 1399)