CRATINUS

krətīˈnəs, d. c.419 b.c., Athenian comic dramatist. He won the prize at the Athenian drama contest when Aristophanes competed with The Clouds and was regarded with Aristophanes and Eupolis as one of the greatest comic dramatists. He attacked Pericles violently in his plays. Fragments of his plays survive.

See R. Rosen, Old Comedy and the Iambographic Tradition (1988).

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From Polis to Empire, the Ancient World, C. 800 B.C.-A.D. 500: A Biographical Dictionary
Book by Andrew G. Traver; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: History, Ancient--Dictionaries
CRATINUS (c. 480-420 B.C.) Cratinus, son of Callimedes, was one of the earliest and greatest poets of Athenian Old Comedy. Cratinus biography is derived from details in the plays and remarks...
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Broken Laughter: Select Fragments of Greek Comedy
Book by S. Douglas Olson; Oxford University Press, 2007
Subjects: Greek Drama (Comedy), Greek Drama (Comedy)--History And Criticism, Quotations, Greek
COMMENTARY B1-B20. Cratinus The Wineflask (frr. 193-217...City Dionysia the previous year) and Cratinus (who won the first of his nine victories...rival (Ach. 848-53, 1173). Cratinus took second, with The Storm-Tossed...
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Athens: With Views of the Literature, Philosophy, and Social Life of the Athenian People
Book by Oswyn Murray, Edward Bulwer Lytton; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Athens (Greece)--History
...Crates. The earliest recorded play of Cratinus, though he must have exhibited many...very abstemious or decorous habits, Cratinus was unsparing in his attacks upon others...years before the first recorded play of Cratinus. He had previously been an actor, and...
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Socrates in August: From Incondensable Complexity to Myth
Book by Michael Jay Katz; Peter Lang Publishing, 1991
...Silence--and then? PHERECYDES: Then? SOCRATES: Yes, then what happened? PHERECYDES: Cratinus happened. SOCRATES: Cratinus? Cratinus the poet? Cratinus the Athenian political satirist? PHERECYDES: A poet? Cratinus was no poet...
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Sophocles and Pericles
Book by Victor Ehrenberg; Basil Blackwell, 1954
Subjects: Pericles--499-429 B.C, Sophocles
...of his to live on in public memory. 3 Cratinus wrote a comedy Cheirones, in which somebody...became a head-gatherer. He was, as Cratinus calls him in the Thrattai frg. 71...which certainly was the one to which Cratinus alludes, started in 445. Socrates...
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Aristophanes's Response to the Peloponnesian War and the Defeat of the Comic Hero
Journal article by Vassiliki Kotini; Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, 2010
Subjects: Aristophanes--Criticism and interpretation, Aristophanes--Works, Drama--Criticism and interpretation, Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BC--Portrayals, Plays--Criticism and interpretation, Psychic trauma--Portrayals, Trauma (Psychology)--Portrayals, War--Portrayals, Wars--Portrayals
...before Aristophanes treated the subject. In Dionysalexandros, Cratinus apparently attacks Pericless decisions and opposes his war...Dionysos" was a familiar feature of the plays of Eupolis and Cratinus. (40) See P. Neils Boulter, "Sophia and Sophrosyne in...
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The Dramatic Background of the Arguments with Callicles, Euripides' Antiope, and an Athenian Anti-intellectual Argument
Journal article by Harold Tarrant; Antichthon, Vol. 42, 2008
Subjects: Callicles, Drama, Euripides (484-06 BC), Intellectuals, Literary criticism
...intellectuals? To put it another way, what had happened to produce two, and quite possibly three, plays (the winner was Cratinus self-directed Wineskin Putivnh), which offered few opportunities for criticism of Cleon? Admittedly, the Aristophanic...
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Reviewed Elsewhere
Journal article; Biography, Vol. 28, 2005
Subjects: All Under Heaven: The Story of a Chinese Family in South Africa (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, L'Abbe Alary (1690-1770): Un homme d'influence au XVIIIe siecle (Book)--Book reviews, The Moon Can Wait (Book)--Book reviews
...be largely synonymous with Aristophanes and become more like what Horace (Sat. 1.4.1) thought it was: Eupolis atque Cratinus Aristophanesque poetae. Storey ... presents us with a Summa Eupolidea, the most exhaustive study yet of all there is to...


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The Taste of Vine and Verse
Magazine article by Abigail Palmer; American Conservative, Vol. 7, July 14, 2008
Subjects: Literary criticism, Poetry, Poets, Social life & customs, Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-94), Wines
...playwrights. In fact, writers of all genres seem to have found inspiration under Bacchuss tutelage. Aristophanes made fun of Cratinus, a fellow playwright and self-professed wine enthusiast, saying that he had died of shock from seeing his wine go to waste...


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Cratinus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CRATINUS kr ti n s, d. c.419 b.c., Athenian comic dramatist. He won the prize at the Athenian drama contest when Aristophanes competed...
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Greek Literature, Ancient
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Equally exalted was the foremost exponent of Attic Old Comedy, Aristophanes . Other writers who developed this genre included Cratinus and Eupolis , of whom little is known. The rowdy humor of these early works gave way to the more sedate Middle Comedy and...


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