ag'athon

Updated: May 26, 2025

As MAHAFFY well says, "Its later annals are but a history of decay; and of the vast herd of latter tragedians two only, and two of the earliest Ion of Chi'os, and Ag'athon can be called living figures in a history of Greek literature." Even these, it seems, wrote before Sophocles and Euripides had closed their careers. But few fragments of their genius have come down to us.

Marcius Willson - Mosaics of Grecian History