Phrynichus
historical figure · 4 works · 7 mentions · 14 anchored passages
Phrynichus, son of Orchesamenus
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
Athenian general who commands the Miletus expedition and whose caution in avoiding an unnecessary naval battle wins Thucydides's explicit praise.
At the close of the same summer, there sailed from Athens a thousand Athenian heavy-armed, fifteen hundred of the Argives, (for five hundred of the Argives who were lightarmed, were provided with full armour by the Athenians,) and a thousand of the allies, in forty-eight ships, some of which were transports, under the command of Phrynichus, Onomacles, and Scironides:
Phrynichus, the commander of the Athenians, on the other hand, when he had heard from Lerus a correct account of their fleet, and when his colleagues wished to await its arrival and give it battle, said that he would neither do so himself, nor, to the best of his power, allow them or any one else to do it.
and so Phrynichus, not on that immediate occasion more than on subsequent ones, nor in that business only, but in all that he had any thing to do with.
On the Mysteries
A cousin named among those denounced by Diocleides.
Phrynichus, son of Orchesamenus.
Clouds
A historical poet whose earlier comic material (a drunken old woman devoured by a whale) is said to have been reused by rivals.
Eupolis, indeed, first of all craftily introduced his Maricas, having basely, base fellow, spoiled by altering my play of the Knights, having added to it, for the sake of the cordax, a drunken old woman, whom Phrynichus long ago poetized, whom the whale was for devouring.
The Histories
Athenian tragedian who staged "The Fall of Miletus", moving the audience to tears, and was fined and banned from restaging it.
when Phrynichus wrote a play entitled “The Fall of Miletus” and produced it, the whole theater fell to weeping;