Lycophron (redirected from Lycophron of Chalcis)

Lycophron (lĭk`əfrŏn), fl. early 3d cent. B.C., b. Chalcis, Alexandrian Greek poet, one of the Pleiad. His only extant poem Cassandra or Alexandra, is an obscure and difficult work in iambic verse. In ancient times his tragedies were highly esteemed.

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Lycophron 

Born circa 320 B.C.; date of death unknown. Greek poet and grammarian.

The scholarly poem Alexandra, which contained the prophecies on the fate of the Greeks after the destruction of Troy, is attributed to Lycophron. He is known as the author of tragedies on mythological themes (20 titles are known), the satyr play Menedemus, and the historical and literary treatise On Comedy (fragments extant).

WORKS

Holzinger, C. Lykophron’s Alexandra. Leipzig, 1895.
In Russian translation:
Aleksandra [excerpts]. Vestnik drevnei istorii, 1947, no. 3, pp. 264–66.

REFERENCES

Istorila grecheskoi literatury, vol. 3. Edited by S. I. Sobolevskii [et al.]. Moscow, 1960. p. 96.
Ziegler. “Lykophron.” In Pauly’s Real-Encyclopädie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, vol. 13. Stuttgart, 1927. Columns 2316–81.