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SOSITHEUS (c. 28o B.C.)

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SOSITHEUS (c. 28o B.C.) , See also:Greek tragic poet, of See also:Alexandria Troas, a member of the Alexandrian " See also:pleiad." He must have resided at some See also:time in See also:Athens, since See also:Diogenes Laertius tells us (vii. 5, 4) that he attacked the Stoic See also:Cleanthes on the See also:stage, and was hissed off by the See also:audience. As Suidas also calls him a Syracusan, it is conjectured that he belonged to the See also:literary circle at the See also:court of See also:Hiero II. According to an See also:epigram of Dioscorides in the Greek See also:Anthology (Anth. See also:Pal. vii. 707) he restored the satyric See also:drama in its See also:original See also:form. A considerable fragment is extant of his See also:pastoral See also:play See also:Daphnis or Lityerses, in which the Sicilian shepherd, in See also:search of his love Pimplea, is brought into connexion with the Phrygian reaper, son of See also:Midas, who slew all who unsuccessfully competed with him in See also:reaping his See also:corn. Heracles came to the aid of Daphnis and slew Lityerses. See O. See also:Crusius s.v. Lityerses in See also:Roscher's Lexikon der griechischen and rOmischen Mythologie.

The fragment of twenty-one lines in See also:

Nauck's Tragicorum graecorum fragmenta apparently contains the beginning of the drama. Two lines from the Aethlius (probably the traditional first See also:king of See also:Elis, See also:father of See also:Endymion) are quoted by See also:Stobaeus (See also:Flor. li. 23).

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