Agathon
Sign in to savethumb|This painting by Anselm Feuerbach re-imagines a scene from [[Plato's Symposium, in which the tragedian Agathon welcomes the drunken Alcibiades into his home. 1869.]]
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Classical Athens
- Place of birth
- Athens
- Place of death
- Pella
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
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- Agathon
- date of death
- 0400-00-00
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- writing language
- Ancient Greek
- date of birth
- 0445-00-00
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thumb|This painting by Anselm Feuerbach re-imagines a scene from [[Plato's Symposium, in which the tragedian Agathon welcomes the drunken Alcibiades into his home. 1869.]]
Agathon (; ; ) was an Athenian tragic poet whose works have been lost. He is best known for his appearance in Plato's Symposium, which describes the banquet given to celebrate his obtaining a prize for his first tragedy at the Lenaia in 416. He is also a prominent character in Aristophanes' comedy the Thesmophoriazusae.
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