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===== Phrynichus ===== | ===== Phrynichus ===== | ||
- | Pupil of Thespis, was one of the earliest of the Greek tragedians. Some of the ancients regarded him as the real founder of tragedy. Phrynichus is said to have died in Sicily. | + | Pupil of Thespis, was one of the earliest of the Greek tragedians. Some of the ancients regarded him as the real founder of tragedy. Phrynichus is said to have died in Sicily. He gained his first victory in a drama contest in 511 BC. His famous play, the __Capture of Miletus__ or the __Sack of Miletus__, was probably composed shortly after the conquest of that city by the Persians during the Ionian Revolt. |
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===== Pigres ===== | ===== Pigres ===== | ||
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+ | A native of Halicarnassus, | ||
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===== Pythagoras | Pythagoreanism ===== | ===== Pythagoras | Pythagoreanism ===== | ||
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+ | Ionian Greek philosopher, | ||
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===== Sappho ===== | ===== Sappho ===== | ||
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+ | Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. The Alexandrians included her in the list of nine lyric poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BCE, and it is said that she died around 570 BCE, but little is known for certain about her life. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, has been lost, but her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments. | ||
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