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| people from west greece | |
| ancient greek dramatists and playwrights | |
| ancient greek poets | |
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When living in Alexandria he was commissioned by Ptolemy Philadelphus to arrange the tragedies and satyric dramas in the library; some ten years later he took up his residence at the court of Antigonus Gonatas , king of Macedon ia. His reputation as a tragic poet was so high that he was allotted a place in the Alexandrian Tragic ''Pleiad'' ; we only know the title of one play (''Astragalistae.'') He also wrote short epics, epigrams and elegies, the considerable fragments of which show learning and eloquence. REFERENCES
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