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Agathon was the son of Tisamenus, [2] and the lover of Pausanias, with whom he appears in both the Symposium and Plato's Protagoras. [3] Together with Pausanias, around 407 BC he moved to the court of Archelaus, king of Macedon, who was recruiting playwrights; it is here that he probably died around 401 BC.
Anthos or Antheus (Flower) is a play by the 5th century BCE Athenian dramatist Agathon.The play has been lost. The play is mentioned by Aristotle in his Poetics (1451b) as an example of a tragedy with a plot which gives pleasure despite the incidents and characters being entirely made up.
Aristotle [A] (Attic Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, romanized: Aristotélēs; [B] 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts.
There is thematic discussion of kalokagathia in Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics, [5] Book VIII, chapter 3 (1248b). And how a kalos kagathos (gentleman) should live is also discussed at length in Xenophon's Socratic dialogues, especially the Oeconomicus. In Aristotle, the term becomes important as a technical term used in discussions about Ethics. [5]
1938ms, extracts in: Price, A. (2018) "J. L. Austin's Lecture Notes on the Nicomachean Ethics: Making Sense of Aristotle on Akrasia." In Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, V. 55. 1939ms/1967, "Agathon and Eudaimonia in the Ethics of Aristotle," in J. M. E. Moravcsik (ed.), Aristotle: a collection of critical essays, New York
Agathon had a son, named Asander, who is mentioned in a Greek inscription. [5] Agathon of Samos, who wrote a work on Scythia and another on rivers. [6] [7] [8] Agathon, at first Reader, then Librarian, at Constantinople. In 680 AD, during his Readership, he was Notary or Reporter at the 6th General Council, which condemned the Monothelite heresy.
A. Abronychus; Acumenus; Adeimantus (son of Leucolophides) Adeimantus of Collytus; Agathon; Alcibiades; Alexicles (general) Ameinias of Athens; Ameipsias; Andocides
Xenocrates was a native of Chalcedon. [2] By the most probable calculation [3] he was born 396/5 BC, and died 314/3 BC at the age of 82. His father was named Agathon (Ancient Greek: Ἀγάθωνος) or Agathanor (Ancient Greek: Ἀγαθάνορος).