Ferécrates

Ferécrates (Greek, Φερεκράτης), Greek poet of the Athenian comedy, was contemporary of Cratino, Crates and Aristophanes. He was victorious at least once in the urban Dionysias, first, probably, in the mid-440s. C., and twice in the Leneas, the first probably at the end of the decade of 430 a. C.

He was especially famous for his inventive imagination, and the elegance and purity of his diction are attested by the epithet Ἀττικώτατος (the most attic) applied to him by Ateneo and the sophist Frinico. He was the inventor of a new meter, called after him, Ferecratean, that frequently is in the choirs of the Greek tragedies and in Horacio. According to an anonymous essay on tragedy, Ferécrates wrote 18 works, indicating that one or more of the 19 surviving titles had to be eliminated for some reason (ie assigning the play to another writer who wrote a comedy with the same name, and assuming an old research error, or for identifying eg the Human Heracles and the Farseer Heracles as a simple work with many titles). There are 288 fragments (including six doubtful) of his comedies, along with the following titles: Good Men, Savages, Humans Heracles, Deserters, Witches, Slave Teacher, Forgetful Man or Sea, Kitchen or Festival of the Whole Night, Corian, Good for Nights, Jewels, Miners, Ant Men, Persians, Petals, Tyranny, Chiron, and False Heracles. The standard edition of the fragments and testimonies is in Kassel-Austin, Poetae Comici Graeci VII. Bibliography

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