Chaeremon

Chaerēmon in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

(Χαιρήμων). A Greek tragedian, who flourished at Athens about B.C. 380. His style was smooth and picturesque, but his plays were artificial, and better adapted for reading than for performance. A few fragments of them remain, which show some imaginative power (Arist. Poet. i. 9). Ed. by Bartsch (Măinz, 1843)....

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Chaeremon in Wikipedia

Chaeremon was an Athenian dramatist of the first half of the fourth century BCE. He was generally considered a tragic poet like Choerilus. Aristotle (Rhetoric, iil. 12) said his works were intended for reading, not for representation. According to Suidas, Chaeremon was also a comic poet, and the title of at least one of his plays (Achilles Slayer o...

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