Agathon

444 BC–399 BC

Athenian tragic poet (c.448–c.400 BC)

writer · tragedy writer

Born in Athens

Contemporaries

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• Plato (428 BC–348 BC)
• Socrates (469 BC–398 BC)
• Sophocles (495 BC–405 BC)
• Herodotus (483 BC–424 BC)
• Hippocrates (459 BC–369 BC)
• Euripides (480 BC–406 BC)
• Democritus (460 BC–360 BC)
• Aristophanes (444 BC–384 BC)

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