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	PHRYNICHUS - LoveToKnow Article on PHRYNICHUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 476 Phrynichus was successful with the Phoenissae, so called from the Phoenician women who formed the chorus, which celebrated the defeat of Xerxes at Salamis (480).
		According to Suidas, Phrynichus first introduced female characters on the stage (played by men in masks), and made special use of the trochaic tetrameter.
		Another work of Phrynichus, not mentioned by Photius, but perhaps identical with the A tticist mentioned by Suidas, the Selection (EKXoyi~i) of Attic Words and Phrases, is extant.
	www.1911ency.org /P/PH/PHRYNICHUS.htm (1244 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Aeschylus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		By the early fifth-century BC Phrynichus and other playwrights were using an actor to alternate with the chorus, widening the dramatic possibilities by allowing the identification of specific characters in the performance.
		Phrynichus had demonstrated the power of tragedy; the historian Herodotus (Histories 6.21) claimed that Phrynichus was fined because his play The Capture of Miletus had caused the Athenians to burst into tears by reminding them of the calamity they had caused.
		It is in this context that Aeschylus followed Phrynichus as the most successful playwright in Athens, dominating the stage after the older man's death c.473 BC.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=40 (1946 words)

	Sophocles at LiteratureClassics.com -- essays, resources
		The date assigned for the poet’s birth is in accordance with the tale that young Sophocles, then a pupil of the musician Lamprus, was chosen to lead the chorus of boys in the celebration of the victory of Salamis (480 n.e.).
		The time of his death is fixed by the allusions to it in The Frogs of Aristophanes and in The Muses, a lost play of Phrynichus, the comic...
		These essays offer analysis of the author's life and works.
	www.literatureclassics.com /authors/Sophocles (877 words)

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