#cratinus

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Cratinus was a famous comic poet and well known alcoholic. [...] He died of desperation, aged ninety-seven, when some Spartan soldiers broke a jar of wine right in front of his eyes.

Dino Baldi, Fabulous Deaths of the Ancient People

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THE PLAYS OF CRATINUS: 

CRATINUS was a highly successful writer of Attic Old Comedy, although the fragmentary nature of his surviving plays suggest that he is not as well remembered as Aristophanes (whose surviving works are intact). Little is known about Cratinus' life, however from references by later writers we know that he lived to be around 100 years old, and that he was very fond of wine. 

Cratinus was credited with nine victories: six first places at the City Dionysia and three first places at the Lenaia (Athenian religious festivals.) Cratinus was thought to have written around twenty-one plays, according to the Suda (a Byzantine encyclopedia). 

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(Info by James Lloyd on Ancient History Encyclopedia)