Agathon
historical figure · 6 works · 9 mentions · 16 anchored passages
the olive-merchant · the poet Agathon
spoken of as
1 expressionAgathon the olive-merchant1 mention
Against Aristogeiton I (Greek)
At the trial of Agathon, the olive-merchant, a day or two ago, he bellowed and ranted and cried Ha-ha!
in the texts
Symposium
The tragic poet whose victory feast is the occasion of the banquet; host of the gathering.
on the occasion of Agathon’s victory with his first tragedy:
After this, it seems, when Socrates had taken his place and had dined with the rest, they made libation and sang a chant to the god and so forth, as custom bids, till they betook them to drinking.
Then, Apollodorus, he said, do you know, I have just been looking for you, as I want to hear all about the banquet that brought together Agathon and Socrates and Alcibiades and the rest of that party, and what were the speeches they delivered upon love.
Nicomachean Ethics
Greek tragic poet quoted twice as a poetic authority.
And in a sense Art deals with the same objects as chance, as Agathon says:
Hence Agathon is right in saying This only is denied even to God, The power to make what has been done undone.
Stromata
Tragedian whose saying closes the discourse on proportion.
"treating what is by the way as the main work, and labouring at the main work as though it were by the way.
Against Aristogeiton I
Olive-merchant whose trial is used as an example of Aristogeiton’s paid silence.
At the trial of Agathon, the olive-merchant, a day or two ago, he bellowed and ranted and cried Ha-ha!
Protagoras
A good-looking young man, believed to be Pausanias' favorite, seen near Prodicus.
I fancied I heard his name was Agathon, and I should not be surprised to find he is Pausanias’ favorite.
Symposium
The poet named as Pausanias' beloved.
Yet Pausanias, the lover of the poet Agathon, has said in his defence of those who wallow in lasciviousness that the most valiant army, even, would be one recruited of lovers and their favourites!