How it fared in that festival's drama competition is unknown but it is now considered one of Aristophanes ' most brilliant parodies of Athenian society, with a particular focus on the subversive role of women in a male-dominated society, the vanity of contemporary poets, such as the tragic playwrights Euripides and Agathon, and the shameless, enterprising vulgarity of an ordinary Athenian, as represented in this play by the protagonist, Mnesilochus.

In the Symposium, Agathon is presented as the friend of the comic poet Aristophanes, but this alleged friendship did not prevent Aristophanes from harshly criticizing Agathon in at least two of his comic plays: the Thesmophoriazousae and the ( now lost ) Gerytades.

He is presented as such in The Acharnians, where Aristophanes shows him to be living morosely in a precarious house, surrounded by the tattered costumes of his disreputable characters ( and yet Agathon, another tragic poet, is discovered in a later play, Thesmophoriazusae, to be living in circumstances almost as bizarre ).

Cyrene is also mentioned in the second and third hymns of Callimachus as well as in The Poet and the Women ( written by Aristophanes ) whence Mnesilochus comments that he " can't see a man there at all-only Cyrene " when setting eyes upon the poet Agathon who emerges from his house to greet Euripides and himself dressed in women's clothing.

Like Agathon and Aristophanes, Alcibiades is a historical person from ancient Athens.

As Aristodemus awakes and leaves the house, Socrates is proclaiming to Agathon and Aristophanes that a skillful playwright should be able to write comedy as well as tragedy ( 223d ).

When Agathon and Aristophanes fall asleep, Socrates leaves, walks to the Lyceum to wash, and spends the rest of the day as he always did, not sleeping until that evening ( 223d ).

With the exception of Aristophanes, all of Socrates ' named friends from the Symposium are in attendance: Eryximachus the doctor, and Phaedrus are there, and so are the lovers Pausanias and Agathon ( who is said to be a mere boy at this point ), and Alcibiades.

This painting by Anselm Feuerbach re-imagines a scene from Plato's Symposium ( Plato ) | Symposium, in which the tragedian Agathon welcomes the drunken Alcibiades into his home.

Although the authenticity of this epigram was accepted for many centuries, it was probably not composed for Agathon the tragedian, nor was it composed by Plato.

The party takes place at the house of the tragedian Agathon in Athens.

Fearful of their powers, Euripides seeks out a fellow tragedian, Agathon, in the hope of persuading him to spy for him and to be his advocate at the festival-a role that would require him of course to go disguised as a woman.

* Phrynicus: A celebrated tragedian of an older generation ( early 5th Century ), he is mentioned favourably by Agathon as a beautiful man ( kalos ) who dressed beautifully and who wrote beautiful plays ( kal ' dramata ).

Agathon is portrayed by Plato as a handsome young man, well dressed, of polished manners, courted by the fashion, wealth and wisdom of Athens, and dispensing hospitality with ease and refinement.

The epideictic speech in praise of love which Agathon recites in the Symposium is full of beautiful but artificial rhetorical expressions, and has led some scholars to believe he may have been a student of Gorgias.

Agathon's extraordinary physical beauty is brought up repeatedly in the sources ; the historian W. Rhys Roberts observes that " ὁ καλός Ἀγάθων ( ho kalos Agathon ) has become almost a stereotyped phrase.

" The most detailed surviving description of Agathon is in the Thesmophoriazousae, in which Agathon appears as a pale, clean-shaven young man dressed in women's clothes.

According to this interpretation, Agathon is mocked in the Thesmophoriazousae not only for his notorious effeminacy, but also for the pretentiousness of his dress: " he seems to think of himself, in all his elegant finery, as a rival to the old Ionian poets, perhaps even to Anacreon himself.

More important is the novel Geschichte des Agathon ( 1766 – 1767 ), in which, under the guise of a Greek fiction, Wieland described his own spiritual and intellectual growth.

The dramatic date of the frame conversation, in which Apollodorus speaks to his unnamed friend, is estimated to be between 401 BC ( fifteen years after Agathon won his prize ) and the time when Socrates was tried and executed in 399 BC.

Agathon says love is dainty, and likes to tiptoe through the flowers and never settles where there is no " bud to bloom " ( 196b ).

Finding himself seated on a couch with Socrates and Agathon, Alcibiades exclaims that Socrates, again, has managed to sit next to the handsomest man in the room, Agathon, and that he is always doing such things ( 213c ).

Penikett is the father of actor Tahmoh Penikett, best known for his work as Karl Agathon in Battlestar Galactica and Paul Ballard in Dollhouse.

Said differently, being the Absolute, Beyond-Being is also the Sovereign Good ( Agathon ), that by its nature desires to communicate itself through the projection of Maya.

Agathon is already dressed as a woman, in preparation for a play, but he believes that the women of Athens are jealous of him and he refuses to attend the festival for fear of being discovered.

In this play, there are two Choruses-one appears briefly while accompanying Agathon in a song outside his house, and later the Chorus proper enters the stage as the women of the festival.

John Maron was the son of Agathon, the governor of Sarum and Anohamia, grandson of prince Alidipas, who governed Antioch.

In his new palace at Pella ( where he moved the capital from the old capital at Aigai ), he hosted great poets, tragedians, including Agathon and Euripides ( who wrote his tragedies Archelaus and The Bacchae while in Macedon ), musicians, and painters, including Zeuxis ( the most celebrated painter of his time ).

* Ibycus, Anacreon and Alcaeus: 6th Century lyrical poets, mentioned favourably by Agathon as examples of poets who dressed and behaved as effetely as himself.

Knut Agathon Wallenberg's younger brother Marcus Wallenberg ( senior ) carried on the tradition and took over as the bank's CEO in 1911, replacing his older brother who was appointed Stockholms Enskilda Bank chairman of the board.

Natalie is then confronted and shot by Hera's mother Sharon " Athena " Agathon, the Number Eight who left the Cylons, married Karl " Helo " Agathon and joined Galacticas crew, because of a dream Athena had in which a Number Six took her daughter.

* A copy, wearing a white overcoat, who captures and kisses Helo before being shot by Sharon Agathon.

* A copy of Six in a black suit, who acts as " overseer " to the breeding experiment concerning Helo and Sharon Agathon.

The paradigm of the city — the idea of the Good, the Agathon — has manifold historical embodiments, undertaken by those who have seen the Agathon, and are ordered via the vision.

Furthermore, Roslin suffers more problems when her longtime aide Billy is murdered during a hostage crisis regarding a group of anti-Cylon activists who seek the death of Cylon traitor Sharon Agathon.

Agathon was also the first playwright to write choral parts which were apparently independent from the main plot of his plays.

Agathon (; gen .: Ἀγάθωνος ) ( ca.

Agathon was the lifelong companion of Pausanias, with whom he appears in both the Symposium and Plato's Protagoras.

Agathon introduced certain innovations into the Greek theater: Aristotle tells us in the Poetics that the characters and plot of his Anthos were original and not, following Athenian dramatic orthodoxy, borrowed from mythological subjects.

Agathon was also a friend of Euripides, another recruit to the court of Archelaus of Macedon.

Snyder theorizes that Agathon might have made a deliberate effort to mimic the sumptuous attire of his famous fellow-poet, although by Agathon's time, such clothing, especially the κεκρύφαλος ( kekryphalos, an elaborate covering for the hair ) had long fallen out of fashion for men.

:::: Kissing Agathon, I had my soul upon my lips ; for it rose, poor wretch, as though to cross over.

:::: Kissing Agathon, I found my soul at my lips.

The foundation followed a substantial donation in 1903 by Knut Agathon Wallenberg.

* Finnish politician and journalist Agathon Meurman was born and lived in Kangasala, and owned the Liuksiala manor.

The epic poem Alcmeonis as well as the Alcmaeon of Sophocles, and those of Agathon and Achaeus, have all been lost.

Two years later Agathon, the Fabergés ' second son, was born.

His brother, Agathon, an extremely talented and creative designer, joined the business from Dresden, where he had also possibly studied at the Arts and Crafts School.