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Agathon (1)

(circa 450-400 BCE) A poet and dramatist whose works only survive in fragments.

Agathon was mentioned and lampooned by other poets, such as Aristophanes, and mentioned by Plato in Symposium.

Agathon was noted as an innovator in the style and presentation of his tragedies by changing the role of the chorus and the character of the music which accompanied his plays.

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