Agathon

Known Plays
Anthos or Antheus ("The Flower")
Mysoi ("Mysians")
Telephos ("Telephus")
Thyestes
Fragments in A Nauck Tragicorum graecorum fragmenta (1887). According to this interpretation Agathon is mocked in the Thesmophoriazousae not only for his notorious effeminacy but also for the pretentiousness of his dress: "he seems to think of himself in all his elegant finery as a rival to the old Ionian poets perhaps even to Anacreon himself. Life and career
Agathon was the lifelong companion of Pausanias with whom he appears in both the Symposium and Plato's Protagoras.

He is best known for his appearance in Plato's Symposium which describes the banquet given to celebrate his obtaining a prize for his first tragedy at the Lenaia in 416. Agathon (Greek: Ἀγάθων; gen.