Leonteus of Argos
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Leonteus of Argos
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Leonteus of Argos was an actor or tragic poet of the 1st century BCE. He was the slave of king Juba I of Numidia, and a pupil of the actor or poet Athenion. It does not appear that he necessarily originated from Argos, but after he was manumitted by the king, he moved to Argos to practice the acting trade he had honed as Juba's slave. Athenaeus preserves an epigram from the king in which he ridicules Leonteus for a terrible performance in a play based on the myth of Hypsipyle. While some scholar
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Ancient Greek actor and tragic poet
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonteus_of_Argos
date created:
2024-09-07T19:47:11Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T19:54:45Z
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