Ion of Chios
Ion of Chios | |
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| Ἴων ὁ Χῖος | |
| Born | c. 490/480 BC Chios, Greece |
| Died | c. 420 BC |
| Occupations | Poet, playwright, philosopher, historian |
Ion of Chios (/ˈaɪɒn/; Ancient Greek: Ἴων ὁ Χῖος; c. 490/480 – c. 420 BC) was a Greek writer, dramatist, lyric poet and philosopher. He was a contemporary of Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles. Of his many plays and poems only a few titles and fragments have survived. He also wrote some prose works, including a Pythagorean text, the Triagmos, of which a few fragments survive.