Dionysiades

Dionysiades (Ancient Greek: Διονυσιάδης) of Tarsus was an ancient Greek tragic poet who lived in the time of Alexander the Great (second half of the 4th century BC).[1] According to Strabo, he was the best of the tragic poets included in the so-called Alexandrian Pleiad.[2][3]

It is not cerain whether he is identical with Dionysiades of Mallus in Cilicia, also a tragic poet,[4] who wrote a work entitled Styles or Lovers of Comedy (Ancient Greek: Χαρακτῆρες ἢ Φιλοκωμῳδοί), "in which he describes (ἀπαγγέλλει) the styles of [comic] poets".[5] This work was perhaps the first attempt to distinguish and define the styles of Attic comic poets.[6]

References
  1. F. Lübker, J. D. Van Hoëvell, Classisch Woordenboek van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, 1857, s.v. "Dionysiades", p. 281.
  2. William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870, s.v. "Dionysiades (2)".
  3. "And the best tragic poet among those enumerated in the 'Pleias' was Dionysides", Strabo, Geographica, 14.5.15.
  4. William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870, s.v. "Dionysiades (1)".
  5. Suida, s.v. Διονυσιάδης.
  6. Rudolf Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship: from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age, Oxford, 1968, p. 160.
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