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Polus of Aegina

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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

  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

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 domainMason, Charles Peter (1870). "Polus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 441.