Lycophron
- Textgroups:
- tlg0341
- CITE id:
- urn:cite:perseus:author.857
- Tlg id:
- tlg0341
- Alt id:
- LCCN n 85216215
- Name:
- Lycophron
- Abbr:
- Lyc.
- Alt names:
- Λυκόφρων
Lykophron, aus Chalcis
Licofrón, de Calcis
Licofrone
Likofron , z Chalkis
Lycophron, Tragicus
Lyc.
- Field of activity:
- Tragic Poet
Grammarian
- Notes:
- His Lykophronos tou Chalkideōs Alexandra = Lycophronis Chalcidensis
Alexandra, 1697
Oxford classical dict. 2d ed. (Lycophron, b. ca. 320 B.C., of Chalcis in
Euboea
killed by an arrow)
LC data base, 11/2/85 (hdg.: Lycophron)
His Alessandra, 1991: t.p. (Licofrone)
TLG Canon of Greek Authors and Works, Third Edition, pg. 250
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol 2,
1867, p. 848: "Lycophron, the celebrated Alexandrian grammarian and poet, was a native of
Chalcis in Euboea......A question has been raised respecting the identity of Lycophron the
tragedian and Lycophron the author of the poem Cassandra..."
Brill's New Pauly: "The poem entitled ‘Alexandra’, comprising 1,474
iambic trimeters, has been passed down to us under the name of L. [5]. But the scholiast on v.
1126 already assumes that the work could not be by the tragedian L. but must be by another
author because of the vaticinium ex eventu, in which the rise of the descendants of Aeneas,
i.e. the Romans, to world power is announced..."
- Author info:
- Wikipedia
- Smith's Dictionary
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