Sannyrion
Template:Short description Sannyrion (Template:Langx) was an Athenian comic poet of the late 5th century BC, and a contemporary of Diocles and Philyllius, according to the Suda. He belonged to the later years of Old Comedy and the start of Middle Comedy.[1]
Works
Sannyrion wrote the following works.
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In Aristophanes' Script error: No such module "lang"., Sannyrion, Meletus, and Cinesias are chosen as ambassadors from the poets to the shades below because they are so skinny.[3]
Hegelochus
Sannyrion is one of the sources for the story of Hegelochus, an actor who was lampooned for a slight but comic mispronunciation while appearing in Euripides' Orestes in 408 BC that ruined his career.
References
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- ↑ Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol 3, 1867, p. 706.
- ↑ Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Sannyrion"
- ↑ Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, 12.75.
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External links
- Public and Performance in the Greek Theatre by Peter D. Arnott
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