Cratinus

Cratinus

▪ Greek poet

died c. 420 BC

      Greek poet, regarded in antiquity as one of the three greatest writers, with Eupolis and Aristophanes, of the vigorous and satirical Athenian Old Comedy.

      Only about 460 fragments survive of Cratinus' 27 known plays, the earliest of which was written not long after 450 BC. His comedies, like those of Aristophanes, seem to have been a mixture of parodied mythology and topical allusion. The Athenian war leader Pericles was a frequent target. In the Putine (The Bottle), which defeated Aristophanes' Clouds for the first prize at the Athenian dramatic contest in 423, Cratinus good-humouredly exploited his own drunkenness (caricatured the previous year in Aristophanes' Knights), showing Comoedia (his wife) complaining of his liaison with the idle mistress Methe (“Drunkenness”).

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