Agathon

American  

[ag-uh-thon] / ˈæg əˌθɒn /

noun

1. c450–c400 b.c., Greek poet and dramatist.

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Example Sentences

Her husband is one of at least 20 opposition members in Burundi who have been seized over the past year, Agathon Rwasa, leader of main opposition party CNL, told the AP.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2022

Burundi court upholds results of presidential vote: Burundi's constitutional court upheld the results of the presidential election last month and rejected the complaints filed by opposition leader Agathon Rwasa, who had alleged widespread irregularities.

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2020

The tragic poet Agathon played host to this one around 416 B.C.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2016

Among the most tantalising of the playwrights whose work has disappeared is Agathon – who appears as a character in both Plato’s philosophical dialogue The Symposium and Aristophanes’s comedy Thesmophoriazusae.

From The Guardian • Nov. 10, 2016

In the productions of Agathon, and even in some dramas of Euripides, tragedy had descended from its primeval height, and represented the distresses of domestic life, though still the domestic life of kings and heroes.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John