Cratinus, -approximately 420 B.C.

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Name (Latin)
Cratinus, -approximately 420 B.C.
Other forms of name
Cratino, -approximately 420 B.C
Cratinus, d. ca. 420 B.C
Cratinus, the elder
Cratinus, the Elder, -approximately 420 B.C
Kratinos, -approximately 420 B.C
Date of birth
-0500
Date of death
-0423
Place of birth
Athens (Greece)
Field of activity
Comedy plays
Verse drama
Greek drama (Comedy)
Occupation
Dramatists
Poets
Playwriter
Associated Language
grc
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q350517
Library of congress: n 87874644
Sources of Information
  • Rosen, R.M. Old comedy and the iambographic tradition, c1988:CIP galley (Cratinus; Greek comic poet)
  • LC manual cat.(hdg.: Cratinus, the elder)
  • Ency. Brit. micropaedia(Cratinus; d. c. 420 B.C.; Athenian poet)
  • Ency. Brit., 1972(Cratinus; c. 495-c. 420 B.C.; Athenian writer of comedy; some authorities put his d. of b. much earlier)
  • Ency. Americana, 1975(Cratinus; c. 510-c. 422 B.C.)
  • Collier's ency., 1973(Cratinus)
  • Greek and Latin authors, 1980(Cratinus; b. c. 510?)
  • Oxford classical dict., 1970(Cratinus)
  • Hē Pytinē tou Kratinou, 1994:p. 8 (Kratinos; b. 520 B.C.; d. 423 B.C.)
  • Volpe e leone, 2006:t.p. (Cratino)