Cleophon (poet)

Cleophon (Greek: , Kleophōn) was an Athenian tragic poet. The titles of ten of his plays are given by the Suda: Acteon, Amphiaraos, Achilles, The Bacchantes, Dexamenus, Erigone, Thyestes, Leucippus, Persis, and Telephus.Suda κ 1730 None of these plays are extant today. As six of these titles are also listed by the Suda as works by Iophon, this may be a corruption of "Iophon".

He is referred to by Aristotle in Poetics and Rhetoric, who notes his prosaic style and lack of idealism.

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