Editing Neophron (section)

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'''Neophron of [[Sicyon]]''' (Νεόφρων, -ονος) was one of the most prolific of the [[Ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] [[dramatist]]s, to whom are accredited one hundred and twenty pieces, of which only a few fragments of his ''Medea'' remain. This, it is said, [[Euripides]] used in his tragedy which bears the [[Medeia|same title]], although modern scholarship is divided on which tragedy came first. Neophron likely lived in the second half of the fifth century B.C. and was a rough contemporary of Euripides.

According to the ''[[Suda]]'', he introduced in his plays the torture of slaves, such scenes, according to the canons of dramatic art, not being enacted on the stage, but merely referred to by messengers.