Pratinas

Pratinas

(Πρατίνας. The quantity of the penult is uncertain, probably long. See Fick, Gr. Personen-Namen, p. xxxv.) A Greek dramatist, of Phlius, who lived about B.C. 496 at Athens. He was a contemporary and rival of Aeschylus, and is believed to have invented the satyric drama. At any rate, he was a very prolific writer in this department of literature. He also wrote tragedies, dithyrambs, and hyporchemata, of which we possess a fairly long and highly original fragment, preserved by Athenaeus (xiv. 617). His son Aristias was also a dramatic poet.

Pratinas Pratinas, author of Satyric dramas

• Paus. 2.13.6