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

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

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.

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

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

Indeed, it was not unusual for Agathon to make ten or more wax models so that all possibilities could be exhausted before deciding on a final design.

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

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.

The most famous symposium of all, described in Plato's dialogue of that name ( and rather differently in Xenophon's ) was hosted by the poet Agathon on the occasion of his first victory at the theater contest of the 416 BC Dionysia.

Like many other Wallenberg relatives, Knut Agathon Wallenberg was also involved in Swedish politics and diplomacy becoming Minister for Foreign Affairs 1914 – 1917, and member of the Riksdags first chamber ( Parliament of Sweden ) 1907 – 1919.

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.

One such school was established in Boulogne-sur-Mer in approximately 1815 by Léon de Chanlaire and Father Benoit Agathon Haffreingue, free music instruction was offered there by 1830.

Pope Agathon of Alexandria was the Coptic Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark ( 661-677 ).

Agathon Jean François Fain ( January 11, 1778 – September 16, 1837 ) was a French historian.

The miniseries was filmed in Vancouver, Canada, and Penikett, a local actor, auditioned and was cast in the part of Karl " Helo " Agathon, an officer in the Colonial Fleet.

After the fall of Athens Choerilus settled at the court of Archelaus, king of Macedon, where he was the associate of Agathon, Melanippides, and Plato the comic poet.

In 315 BC, when Antigonus began his operations against the confederates, he sent one Ptolemy, a nephew of his, with, an army to relieve Amisus, and to expel from Cappadocia the army with which Asander had invaded that country ; but as Asander was supported by Ptolemy and Cassander, he maintained himself until 313 BC, when Antigonus himself marched against him, and compelled him to conclude a treaty by which he was bound to surrender his whole army, to restore the Greek towns on the coast to freedom, to regard his satrapy of Caria as the gift of Antigonus, and to give his brother Agathon as hostage.

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.

Among the historical male couples, where both partners were adults, are Pausanias of Athens and the tragic poet Agathon, already in his thirties.

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.

Shortly after Agathon joined the firm, the House introduced objects deluxe: gold bejewelled items embellished with enamel ranging from electric bell pushes to cigarette cases, including objects de fantaisie.

It would seem that none of the characters at the party, with the possible exception of Agathon himself, would be candidates for love's companionship.

Socrates turns politely to Agathon and with Agathon's cooperation examines his speech.

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 ).

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.

Although this development distressed Roslin, she decides to bring Baltar with her ( along with Karl Agathon — Athena's husband ) to the Cylon Basestar to see the Hybrid.

The centre piece of the Republic, Part II, numbers 2 – 3, discusses the rule of the philosopher, and the vision of the Agathon with the allegory of the cave, which is clarified in the theory of forms.

She begins to experience shared visions ( with Sharon Agathon and Number Six ) which involve the human-cylon hybrid child, Hera.

When the Colonials evacuate New Caprica, Baltar and Caprica-Six discover Hera, the child of Sharon " Athena " Agathon whom Virtual Six predicted would be born in Galactica's Brig.

" 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.

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.

It appears that he had two other sons, Asander and Agathon.

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.

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.

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.

A scene from Plato's philosophical work The Symposium, where Alcibiades, the archetypal Athenian aristocrat, arrives drunk at a party hosted by Agathon. Many of the poems of Theognis reflect on man's relation to wine, a symbolic focus for general reflections on the ideal of moderation.

Agathon (; gen .: Ἀγάθωνος ) ( ca.

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'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.

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.

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.

:::: 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.

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.

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

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.