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Headword: *luko/frwn Adler number: lambda,827 Translated headword: Lykophron, Lycophron Vetting Status: high Translation:
of Chalcis in Euboea;[1] son of Socles, and by adoption of Lycus of Rhegium.[2] Grammarian and tragic poet; he is one of the seven who are named the Pleiad.[3] His tragedies are: Aeolus; Andromeda; Aletes; Aeolides; Elephenor; Heracles; Suppliants; Hippolytus; Cassandreis; Laius; Marathonians; Nauplius; Oedipus (1 and 2); Orphan; Pentheus; Pelopidae; Allies; Telegonus; Chrysippus. Of these, the Nauplius is a revision. He also wrote the so-called Alexandra, the obscure poem.[4]
C4-3 BC. See generally RE Lykophron(8); OCD4 s.v. Lycophron(2), on which see further below; TrGF 100.
[1] The suffix (for which cf. epsilon 3801) distinguishes this place from homonyms in Epirus and elsewhere.
[2] Lycus: lambda 814.
[3] cf. alpha 1127, delta 1169, omicron 253, sigma 817, sigma 860, sigma 863, tau 894, phi 358.
[4] Modern scholarship, which shares this estimate of the Alexandra, actually dissociates it from Lycophron of Chalcis: see the OCD article.
Reference:
Simon Hornblower, Lycophron, Alexandra: Greek text, Translation, Commentary and Introduction (Oxford, Clarendon Press 2015)
William Hutton (Cosmetics, added keywords, set status) on 30 August 2003@10:46:10. David Whitehead (augmented notes; typo) on 31 August 2003@07:19:14. David Whitehead (another note) on 24 April 2013@03:48:56. David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 2 August 2014@07:37:11. Catharine Roth (coding) on 3 January 2015@00:02:11. David Whitehead (added bibliography) on 7 May 2015@03:03:32.
