Английская Википедия:Crates (comic poet)

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Шаблон:Short description Crates (Шаблон:Lang-el) was an Athenian Old Comic poet, who was victorious three times at the City Dionysia, first probably in 450 BC.Шаблон:Sfn His career had apparently ended by 424 BC, when Aristophanes portrays him in The Knights as a figure from the past.Шаблон:Sfn Before he began writing, he was an actor for Cratinus.Шаблон:Sfn

Aristotle claims in the Poetics that Crates was the first comic poet to create complete plots, rather than personal abuse, and his surviving fragments support this.Шаблон:Sfn His style of comedy was apparently therefore rather different from that of Aristophanes' more political and topical works,Шаблон:Sfn and by the end of the fourth century BC this was the dominant style of comedy.Шаблон:Sfn He was also supposedly the first Athenian comic poet to write a drunk character.Шаблон:Sfn

Sixty fragments (four uncertain) survive.Шаблон:Sfn According to the Suda[1] and an anonymous writer on comedy,[2] he wrote seven plays; another source[3] says eight.Шаблон:Sfn Eleven titles are attributed to him:

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  • Geitones ("Neighbours")[1]
  • Eortai ("Feasts")[4]
  • Heroes ("Heroes")[1]
  • Theria ("Wild Beasts")[1]
  • Lamia ("Lamia")[1]
  • Metoikoi ("Metics")[5]
  • Paidiai ("Games")[6]
  • Pedetai ("Men In Chains")[1]
  • Rhetores ("Politicians")[7]
  • Samioi ("The Samians")[1]
  • Tolmai ("Daring Deeds")[8]

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Of these titles, Feasts may be a mistake caused by confusion with Plato Comicus's play of that name;Шаблон:Sfn the Men in Chains might be a mistake for Games, by confusion with Callias' Men in Chains;Шаблон:Sfn and the Politicians, attested in only one fragment, might be a mistake for Heroes or Neighbours.Шаблон:Sfn Crates' Metics is attested only in a single fragment preserved in the Etymologicum Genuinum; other plays of that name by Pherecrates and Plato Comicus are attested, and it is unclear whether all three are separate works.Шаблон:Sfn

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  1. 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 1,6 Crates, Test. 1 Шаблон:Harvnb
  2. Crates, Test. 2 Шаблон:Harvnb
  3. Crates, Test. 4 Шаблон:Harvnb
  4. Crates fr.40–41 Шаблон:Harvnb
  5. Crates fr.26 Шаблон:Harvnb
  6. Crates fr.27–29 Шаблон:Harvnb
  7. Crates fr.30 Шаблон:Harvnb
  8. Crates, fr.36–42 Шаблон:Harvnb