Sophron
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Sophron was the author of prose dialogues in the Doric dialect, containing both male and female characters, some serious, others humorous in style, and depicting scenes from the daily life of the Sicilian Greeks. Although in prose, they were regarded as poems; in any case they were not intended for stage representation. They were written in pithy and popular language, full of proverbs and colloquialisms.[2]
Influence
Are we then to deny that the so-called mimes of Sophron, which are not even in metre, are stories and imitations, or the dialogues of Alexamenos of Teos, which were written before the Socratic dialogues? Plato is said to have been an admirer and imitator of Sophron, whose works were found under his pillow.[4]
— Humphry House
Editions
The fragments of Sophron are collected in:
- Ahrens, H. L., De graecae linguae dialectis (1843), ii. (app.), and C. J. Botzon (1867); see also his De Sophrone et Xenarcho mimographis (1856).[2]
The most recent edition is:
- Hordern, J. H., Sophron's Mimes: Text, Translation, and Commentary, Oxford, 2004. ISBN 9780199266135.
References
- ^ a b "Sophron (σ 893)". Suda.
- ^ a b c public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sophron". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 429. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ Diogenes Laërtius. Lives of the Eminent Philosophers. 3.18.
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: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ Humphry House (1956). Aristotles Poetics. Rupert Hart-Davis. pp. 31–32.