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424 BC (search for this): entry philonides-bio-1
the distribution of subjects in the last clause agrees neither with the testimony already cited, nor with the information which we derive from the Didascaliae, as to the plays which were assigned respectively to Philonides and Callistratus. From the Didascaliae and other testimonies, we find that the Babylonians (B. C. 426) and the Acharnians (B. C. 425) were also brought out in the name of Callistratus; and that the first play which Aristophanes exhibited in his own name was the Knights, B. C. 424 (e)dida/xqh....di' au)tou= tou= *)Aristofa/nous, Didasc.). And hence the notion has been hastily adopted, that he henceforth continued to exhibit in his own name, until towards the close of his life, when he allowed Araros to bring out his plays. But, on the contrary, we find from the Didascaliae that he brought out the Birds (B. C. 414) and the Lysistrata (B. C. 411) in the name of Callistratus (dia\ kallistra/tou). Thus far the testimonies quoted have only referred to Philonides in gen
425 BC (search for this): entry philonides-bio-1
s." We may, however, with great probability regard the passage as a later interpolation : how little credit is due to it is plain from the fact that the distribution of subjects in the last clause agrees neither with the testimony already cited, nor with the information which we derive from the Didascaliae, as to the plays which were assigned respectively to Philonides and Callistratus. From the Didascaliae and other testimonies, we find that the Babylonians (B. C. 426) and the Acharnians (B. C. 425) were also brought out in the name of Callistratus; and that the first play which Aristophanes exhibited in his own name was the Knights, B. C. 424 (e)dida/xqh....di' au)tou= tou= *)Aristofa/nous, Didasc.). And hence the notion has been hastily adopted, that he henceforth continued to exhibit in his own name, until towards the close of his life, when he allowed Araros to bring out his plays. But, on the contrary, we find from the Didascaliae that he brought out the Birds (B. C. 414) and th
422 BC (search for this): entry philonides-bio-1
of Philonides previous to the date of the Knights ; but that he did so afterwards we know on the clearest evidence. His next play, the Clouds (B. C. 423), we might suppose to have been brought out in the name of Philonides, on account of the statement of the grammarian, that Aristophanes assigned to him the plays against Socrates and Euripides, coupled with the known fact that the Frogs were exhibited in the name of Philoides ; but, however this may be, we find that, in the following year, B. C. 422, Aristophanes brought oult two plays, the Proagon and the Wasps, both in the name of Philonides, and gained with them the first and second prize. This statement rests on the authority of the difficult and certainly corrupted Passage in the Didascalia of the Wasps, into the critical discussion of which we cannot here enter, further than to give, as the result, the following amended reading, which is founded on the Ravenna MS., adopted both by Dindorf and Bergk, and of the correctness of whi
423 BC (search for this): entry philonides-bio-1
han one name) as to the practice of Aristophanes with respect to several of his plays. There is, therefore, no reason for the violent and arbitrary alteration of the words of the grammarian, who, as above quoted, expressly says that the play was exhibited dia\ kallistra/tou. There is, therefore, no evidence that Aristophanes exhibited under the name of Philonides previous to the date of the Knights ; but that he did so afterwards we know on the clearest evidence. His next play, the Clouds (B. C. 423), we might suppose to have been brought out in the name of Philonides, on account of the statement of the grammarian, that Aristophanes assigned to him the plays against Socrates and Euripides, coupled with the known fact that the Frogs were exhibited in the name of Philoides ; but, however this may be, we find that, in the following year, B. C. 422, Aristophanes brought oult two plays, the Proagon and the Wasps, both in the name of Philonides, and gained with them the first and second pri
426 BC (search for this): entry philonides-bio-1
tors he exhibited his own dramas." We may, however, with great probability regard the passage as a later interpolation : how little credit is due to it is plain from the fact that the distribution of subjects in the last clause agrees neither with the testimony already cited, nor with the information which we derive from the Didascaliae, as to the plays which were assigned respectively to Philonides and Callistratus. From the Didascaliae and other testimonies, we find that the Babylonians (B. C. 426) and the Acharnians (B. C. 425) were also brought out in the name of Callistratus; and that the first play which Aristophanes exhibited in his own name was the Knights, B. C. 424 (e)dida/xqh....di' au)tou= tou= *)Aristofa/nous, Didasc.). And hence the notion has been hastily adopted, that he henceforth continued to exhibit in his own name, until towards the close of his life, when he allowed Araros to bring out his plays. But, on the contrary, we find from the Didascaliae that he brought o
411 BC (search for this): entry philonides-bio-1
ought out in the name of Callistratus; and that the first play which Aristophanes exhibited in his own name was the Knights, B. C. 424 (e)dida/xqh....di' au)tou= tou= *)Aristofa/nous, Didasc.). And hence the notion has been hastily adopted, that he henceforth continued to exhibit in his own name, until towards the close of his life, when he allowed Araros to bring out his plays. But, on the contrary, we find from the Didascaliae that he brought out the Birds (B. C. 414) and the Lysistrata (B. C. 411) in the name of Callistratus (dia\ kallistra/tou). Thus far the testimonies quoted have only referred to Philonides in general terms : it remains to be seen what particular plays Aristophanes brought out in his name. From the above statements of the grammarians it might be inferred that Aristophanes used the name of Philonides in this manner before the composition of the Knights ; but this is probably only a part of the error by which it was assumed that, from the time of his exhibiting
427 BC (search for this): entry philonides-bio-1
that the person in whose name he brought out the play referred to (the Daetaleis) was another poet. It was evidently the word e)ch=n in this passage that misled the scholiast into his fancy of a legal prohibition. We must now inquire what light the ancient grammarians throw upon the subject. The author of the anonymous work, *Peri\ kwmwdi/as, who is decidedly one of the best of these writers, states (p. xxix.) that "Aristophanes first exhibited (e)di/dace) in the archonship of Diotimus (B. C. 427), in the name of Callistratus (dia\ kallistra/tou); for his political comedies (ta\s politika\s) they say that he gave to him,but those against Euripidesand Socrates to Philonides; and on account of this (first drama) being esteemed a good poet, he conquered on subsequent occasions (tou\s loipou\s, sc xro/nous), enrolling his own name as the author (e)pigrafo/menos). Afterwards he gave his dramas to his son" (Araros). The play which he exhibited on this occasion was the *Daitalei=s (Nub. l
414 BC (search for this): entry philonides-bio-1
been hastily adopted, that he henceforth continued to exhibit in his own name, until towards the close of his life, when he allowed Araros to bring out his plays. But, on the contrary, we find from the Didascaliae that he brought out the Birds (B. C. 414) and the Lysistrata (B. C. 411) in the name of Callistratus (dia\ kallistra/tou). Thus far the testimonies quoted have only referred to Philonides in general terms : it remains to be seen what particular plays Aristophanes brought out in his be sustained, he makes the passage mean that Aristophanes gained the first prize with the Wasps, and some poet, whose name is not mentioned, the second with the Proagon. Plays produced by Aristophanes under the name of Philonides In the year B. C. 414 we again find Aristophanes exhibiting two plays (though at different festivals), the Amphiaraus, in the name of Philonides, and the Birds, in that of Callistratus (Arg. in Av.) ; and, lastly, we learn from the Didascalia to the Frogs, that that