Phrynichus
historical figure · 5 works · 8 mentions · 16 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.
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.
but to leave behind what they had taken from the enemy's country, that their ships might be the lighter, and to sail away to Samos, and thence, when they had Collected all their ships, to make their attacks upon them, whenever they had an opportunity.
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.
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;
Against Leocrates
Athenian oligarch found after death to have tried to betray the city, whose bones were dug up and expelled from Attica by decree.
They decreed also that if any persons defended the dead man and he were found guilty, they should be liable to the same punishment as he.
You remember when Phrynichus was murdered at night beside the fountain in the osier beds by Apollodorus and Thrasybulus, who were later caught and put in the prison by the friends of Phrynichus.
They decreed publicly, on the motion of Critias, that the dead man should be tried for treason, and that if it were found that this was a tratior who had been buried in the country, his bones should be dug up and removed from Attica, so that the land should not have lying in it even the bones of one who had betrayed his country and his city.