Aristias

{{Short description|Ancient Greek playwright}} '''Aristias ''' ({{langx|grc|Ἀριστίας}}), son of Pratinas, was a dramatic poet of ancient Greece whose tomb Pausanias saw at Phlius, and whose satyric dramas, with those of his father, were considered to be surpassed only by those of Aeschylus.<ref>Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' 2.13.5</ref> Aristias is mentioned in the life of Sophocles as one of the poets with whom the latter contended. Besides two dramas, which were undoubtedly satyr plays, the ''Keres'' (Κῆρες) and ''Cyclops'', Aristias wrote three others, ''Antaeus'', ''Orpheus'', and ''Atalante'', which may have been tragedies.<ref>Comp. Athen. 15.686a</ref><ref>Julius Pollux ''Onomasticon'' (Ὀνομαστικόν), 7.31</ref><ref>Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, ''Die griechischen Tragödien mit Rücksicht auf den epischen Zyklus geordnet'', (1864), p. 966</ref>

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Category:Ancient Phliasians Category:Ancient Greek tragic poets Category:5th-century BC Greek poets