Pratinas
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Pratinas (; ) was one of the early tragic poets who flourished at Athens at the beginning of the fifth century BCE, and whose combined efforts were thought by critics to have brought the art to its perfection.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Phlius
- Place of death
- Athens
- Child
- Aristias
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
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- date of birth
- 0600-01-01
- date of death
- 0500-01-01
- writing language
- Ancient Greek
- floruit
- 0600-00-00
- significant place
- Phlius
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Pratinas (; ) was one of the early tragic poets who flourished at Athens at the beginning of the fifth century BCE, and whose combined efforts were thought by critics to have brought the art to its perfection.
==Life== He was a native of Phlius in Peloponnese, and was therefore by birth a Dorian. His father's name was Pyrrhonides or Encomius. It is not known at what time he went to Athens, but we find him exhibiting there, in competition with Choerilus and Aeschylus, around the 70th Olympiad, that is, 500–499 BCE, the year of Aeschylus's debut.
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