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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 445 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Cythera (435–380 B.C.), See also:Greek dithyrambic poet. On the See also:conquest of the See also:island by the Athenians he was taken as a prisoner of See also:war to See also:Athens, where he came into the See also:possession of the dithyrambic poet Melanippides, who educated him and set him See also:free. Philoxenus afterwards resided in See also:Sicily, at the See also:court of See also:Dionysius, See also:tyrant of See also:Syracuse, whose See also:bad verses he declined to praise, and was in consequence sent to See also:work in the quarries. After leaving Sicily he travelled in See also:Greece, See also:Italy and See also:Asia, reciting his poems, and died at See also:Ephesus. According to Suidas, Philoxenus composed twenty-four dithyrambs and a lyric poem on the See also:genealogy of the Aeacidae. In his hands the dithyramb seems to have been a sort of comic See also:opera, and the See also:music, composed by himself, of a debased See also:character. His masterpiece was the Cyclops, a See also:pastoral See also:burlesque on the love of the Cyclops for the See also:fair Galatea, written to avenge himself upon Dionysius, who was wholly or partially See also:blind of. one See also:eye. It was parodied by See also:Aristophanes in the See also:Plutus (29o). Another work of Philoxenus (sometimes • attributed to Philoxenus of Leucas, a notorious See also:parasite and See also:glutton) is the zeuirvov (See also:Dinner), of which considerable fragments have been preserved by See also:Athenaeus. This is an elaborate See also:bill of fare in See also:verse, probably intended as a See also:satire on the luxury of the Sicilian court. The See also:great popularity of Philoxenus is attested by a complimentary See also:resolution passed by the Athenian See also:senate in 393. The comic poet See also:Antiphanes spoke of him as a See also:god among men; See also:Alexander the Great had his poems sent to him in Asia; the Alexandrian grammarians received him into the See also:canon; and down to the See also:time of See also:Polybius his See also:works were regularly learned and annually acted by the Arcadian youth.

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life, by G. Bippart (1843); T. See also:Bergk, Poetae lyrici graeci.

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