Aristarchus of Tegea
Aristarchus or Aristarch of Tegea (Greek: Ἀρίσταρχος ὁ Τεγεάτης, Aristarkhos ho Tegeates) was a Greek tragic poet and a contemporary of Sophocles and Euripides. He lived to be a centenarian, composed seventy plays, and won two tragic victories. Only the titles of three of his plays (Achilles, Asclepius, and Tantalus), along with a single line of the text, have come down to us, although Ennius freely borrowed from his play about Achilles. Among his merits seems to have been that of brevity; for, as Suidas relates, he was "the first one to make his plays of the present length."[1]
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- ^ Suda α 3893
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- Ancient Arcadian poets
- Tragic poets
- 5th-century BC Greek people
- Ancient Greek centenarians
- Ancient Greek dramatists and playwrights
- Men centenarians
- 5th-century BC writers
- Tegea
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