Attic dithyrambic poet, presumably the author of an inscription on a tripod for the victory of the phyle Acamantis in the dithyrambic competition in the Dionysia (FGE 11-15). The sources (Anth. Pal. 13,28) ascribe the epigram to ‘Simonides or Bacchylides’, but Hecker emphatically recognized Antigenes as the author; he calls himself the χοροδιδάσκαλος [1.149-152]; the χορη…
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Robbins, Emmet (Toronto) and
Badian, Ernst (Cambridge, MA),
“Antigenes”, in:
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