Plato (also Plato Comicus) was an Athenian comic poet and contemporary of Aristophanes. None of his plays survive intact, but the titles of thirty of them are known, including a Hyperbolus (c. 420-416 BC), Victories (after 421), Cleophon (in 405), and Phaon (probably in 391). The titles suggest that his themes were often political. In 410 BC, one of his plays took first prize at the City Dionysia.

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  • Plato (also Plato Comicus) was an Athenian comic poet and contemporary of Aristophanes. None of his plays survive intact, but the titles of thirty of them are known, including a Hyperbolus (c. 420-416 BC), Victories (after 421), Cleophon (in 405), and Phaon (probably in 391). The titles suggest that his themes were often political. In 410 BC, one of his plays took first prize at the City Dionysia. Phaon included a scene in which a character sits down to study a poem about gastronomy (in fact mostly about aphrodisiacs) and reads some of it aloud. The poem is in hexameters, and therefore sounds like a lampoon of the work of Archestratus, although the speaker calls it "a book by Philoxenus", meaning either the poet Philoxenus of Cythera, the glutton Philoxenus of Leucas, or both indiscriminately.
  • Platon (dit « Platon le Comique » pour le différencier du philosophe Platon), est un poète comique grec et un contemporain d'Aristophane. Aucune de ses pièces ne sont restées intactes, mais l'on connaît les titres de trente d'entre elles, par exemple Hyberbolos, Victoires, Cléophon, Phaon (vraisemblablement écrite en 391 av. J. -C.). Les titres suggèrent que son thème de prédilection était la politique.
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  • Plato (also Plato Comicus) was an Athenian comic poet and contemporary of Aristophanes. None of his plays survive intact, but the titles of thirty of them are known, including a Hyperbolus (c. 420-416 BC), Victories (after 421), Cleophon (in 405), and Phaon (probably in 391). The titles suggest that his themes were often political. In 410 BC, one of his plays took first prize at the City Dionysia.
  • Platon (dit « Platon le Comique » pour le différencier du philosophe Platon), est un poète comique grec et un contemporain d'Aristophane. Aucune de ses pièces ne sont restées intactes, mais l'on connaît les titres de trente d'entre elles, par exemple Hyberbolos, Victoires, Cléophon, Phaon (vraisemblablement écrite en 391 av. J. -C.). Les titres suggèrent que son thème de prédilection était la politique.
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  • Plato (comic poet)
  • Platon le Comique
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