Phrynichus

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Phrynichus (Greek: Φρύνιχος) may refer to several figures of ancient Greece:

• There are two dramatic poets named Phrynicus whose plays only survive in fragments:
  • Phrynichus (tragic poet), a pioneer of Greek tragedy who flourished in the late 6th and early 5th centuries BC, most famous for The Fall of Miletus
  • Phrynichus (comic poet), a writer of old Attic comedy who flourished in the late 5th century BC
• Phrynicus was an Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War. He took a leading part in establishing the oligarchy of the Four Hundred at Athens in 411 BC and was assassinated in the same year^[1].
• Phrynichus Arabius was a grammarian and rhetorician of the 2nd century AD.

Phrynichus is also the name of a genus in the Amblypygids, an order of scorpions.