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.]]
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1778
- Died
- 1837
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Manuscit de mil huit cent douze
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- Memoirs of the invasion of France by the allied armies, and of the last six months of the reign of Napoleon, including his abdication
- Mémoires du baron Fain, premier secrétaire du cabinet de l'empereur
- Mémoires du baron Fain
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- 1,034
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Quotes
- “μόνου γὰρ αὐτοῦ καὶ θεὸς στερίσκεται,ἀγένητα ποιεῖν ἅσσ᾿ ἂν ᾖ πεπραγμένα.”
- “τέχνη τύχην ἔστερξε καὶ τύχη τέχνην.”
- “φαῦλοι βροτῶν γὰρ τοῦ πονεῖν ἡσσώμενοιθανεῖν ἐρῶσιν.”
- “τάχ᾿ ἄν τις εἰκὸς αὐτὸ τοῦτ᾿ εἶναι λέγοι,βροτοῖσι πολλὰ τυγχάνειν οὐκ εἰκότα.”
- “ἰδίας ὁδοὺς ζητοῦσι φιλόπονοι φύσεις.”
- “Ἀγάθων ἔφη· τὸν ἄρχοντα τριῶν δεῖ μεμνῆσθαι· πρῶτον ὅτι ἀνθρώπων ἄρχει, δεύτερον ὅτι νόμοις ἄρχει, τρίτον ὅτι οὐκ ἀεὶ ἄρχει.”
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- date of death
- 0400-00-00
- 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.