The New International Encyclopædia/Pratinas

PRAT′INAS (Lat., from Gk. ). A Greek poet, born in Phlius, in the Peloponnesus, who lived in Athens about B.C. 500. According to Suidas. he was a contemporary and rival of Æschylus, and was the first to introduce the satyric drama into Athens. He also wrote tragedies, lyrics, and hyporchemata, of which a considerable

and interesting fragment has been preserved by Athenæus (xiv., 617). For the fragments of his lyrics, consult Bergk's Poetæ Lyrici Græci (Leipzig, 1843).