Euphorion

Who is Euphorion?

Euphorion was an Attic tragic playwright. He was the son of the Attic playwright Aeschylus. In the Dionysia of 431 BCE, Euphorion won 1st prize, defeating both Sophocles and Euripides, who took 3rd prize with a tetralogy that includes the extant play Medea. He is purported by some to have been the author of Prometheus Bound, previously assumed to be the work of his father, Aeschylus, to whom it was attributed at the Library of Alexandria, for several reasons, chiefly that the perspective of the playwright on Zeus is far less reverent than in other plays by Aeschylus, and that references to the play appear in the plays of the comic Aristophanes, leading historians to date it as late as 415 BCE, long after Aeschylus' death. This makes him a potential fourth surviving Ancient Greek tragedian.