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SOPHRON , of See also:Syracuse, writer of mimes, flourished about 430 B.C. He was the author of See also:prose dialogues in the Doric See also:dialect, containing both male and See also:female characters, some serious, others humorous in See also:style, and depicting scenes from the daily See also:life of the Sicilian Greeks. Although in prose, they were regarded as poems; in any See also:case they were not intended for See also:stage See also:representation. They were written in pithy and popular See also:language, full of See also:proverbs and colloquialisms. See also:Plato is said to have introduced them into See also:Athens and to have made use of them in his dialogues; according to Sufdas, they were Plato's See also:constant companions, and he even slept with them under his See also:pillow. Some See also:idea of their See also:general See also:character may be gathered from the 2nd and 15th idylls of See also:Theocritus, which are said to have been imitated from the 'AitOrptai and 'IaO tt6. ovoai of his Syracusan predecessor. Their See also:influence is also to be traced in the satires of See also:Persius. The fragments will be found in H. L. See also:Ahrens's De graecae linguae dialectis (1843), ii. (app.). Latest edition by C. J. Botzon (1867); see also his De Sophrone et Xenarcho mimographis (1856). Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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