Euphorion

1. Son of the Attic tragedian Aeschylus, who is said to have won victories in the drama festivals with tragedies written by his father but not produced in his lifetime. In 431 BC he defeated both Sophocles and Euripides (one of whose plays was Medea), but with what plays is not known.

2. Of Chalcis in Euboea, a Hellenistic Greek poet of the third century BC who lived most of his life in Antioch in Syria where he was librarian. The scantiness of his surviving work makes it difficult to assess, but he seems mostly to have written epic-style poetry on mythological subjects. He exercised a considerable influence on later poets; at Rome his epyllia were greatly admired by Catullus and his contemporaries (hence Cicero's description of these poets as cantores Euphorionis, ‘those who sing the praises of Euphorion’) but he did not write love elegies in the Roman manner, as used to be thought. Probably the Ciris reproduces his manner most closely (see APPENDIX VIRGILIANA).

Euphorion, a character in Goethe's Faust, Pt. II, Act 3. He is the offspring of Faust and Helena, and Goethe associated him with Byron and Romanticism.

Euphorion may refer to:

• Euphorion of Chalcis, a Greek poet and grammarian.
• A character in Goethe's Faust, Part 2, the offspring of Faust and Helen of Troy.

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