Athenion (actor)
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Athenion (Ancient Greek: Ἀθηνίων) or Athenio was involved in the theatre of 1st-century BC Greco-Roman world.
He is often described as a tragic poet. He lived around the middle of the 1st century BCE, and was the instructor of Leonteus of Argos, who is also often described as a tragic poet.[1]
Some scholars dispute this reading of the ancient texts and contend that both Athenion and his pupil were tragic actors only, and did not write plays.[2]
