| Achaeus Of Eretria |
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His first play was produced in 447 BC and won a victory. A quote in Aristophanes ' '' The Frogs '' suggests he was dead by 405 BC . Some classicists suggest that his winning only one prize was due to him not an Athenian by birth, and the men of Athens were loath to honor any but their own fellow-citizens. Achaeus of '', and Didymus wrote a commentary on him. Athenaeus (10.451c) describes him as having a lucid style, but with tendencies to obscurity. Athenaeus also claimed that Euripides took a line from Achaeus, while Aristophanes quotes him twice, in ''The Frogs'' and '' The Wasps ''. REFERENCES
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