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For other uses, see Python

Python of Catana, a dramatic poet of the time of Alexander, whom he accompanied into Asia, and whose army he entertained with a satyric drama, called Agen Template:Polytonic when they were celebrating the Dionysia on the banks of the Hydaspes The drama was in ridicule of Harpalus and the Athenians ; fragments of it are preserved by Athenaeus. Identification of the poet with Python of Byzantium, the highly regarded orator in the service of Philip II is unlikely.

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References

  • Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great by Waldemar Heckel ISBN 9781405112109

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSmith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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