Polus of Aegina

Polus (Ancient Greek: Πῶλος) of Aegina was a celebrated tragic actor, the son of Charicles of Sunium, and a disciple of Archias of Thurii.

It is related of him that at the age of 70, shortly before his death, he acted in eight tragedies on four successive days.^[1]^[2]

The Roman author Aulus Gellius also mentions the actor, describing how during a performance of Electra, in the scene where Orestes is mourned with his ashes, Polus starred while holding an urn containing the ashes of his own son. ^[3]

Notes

^ Plutarch, Dem. p. 859, An seni ger. sit Resp. 3. p. 785b
^ Lucian. Necyom. vol. i. p. 479, ed. Hemst.
^ Lauriola, 2017. P. 56

References

Rosanna Lauriola and Kyriakos N. Demetriou (3 April 2017), BRILL (ed.), Brill's Companion to the Reception of Sophocles, BRILL, ISBN 9789004300941

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Mason, Charles Peter (1870). "Polus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 441.

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[1] Plutarch, Dem. p. 859, An seni ger. sit Resp. 3. p. 785b

[2] Lucian. Necyom. vol. i. p. 479, ed. Hemst.

[3] Lauriola, 2017. P. 56

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