Diogenes of Athens (tragedian)
Writer of Greek tragedy in the late 5th or early 4th century BC
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Diogenes of Athens (Ancient Greek: Διογένης ὁ Ἀθηναῖος) was a writer of Greek tragedy in the late 5th or early 4th century BC. His works are listed by the Suda[1] as Semele,[2] Achilles, Helen, Herakles, Thyestes, Medea, Oedipus, and Chrysippus. He was either born or flourished at the time of the Thirty Tyrants and the suppression of Athenian democracy, around 404–403 BC.[3]
This Diogenes is sometimes confused with Diogenes of Sinope, to whom a similar list of tragedies is attributed[4] by Diogenes Laërtius.[5]
Athenaeus preserves a geographically confused fragment[6] from Diogenes, having to do with a laurel grove along the Halys river where Lydian and Bactrian girls perform sacred music for Artemis as the goddess of Mount Tmolus.[7]
