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Choerilus (Greek: Χοιρίλος) was an Athenian tragic poet, who exhibited plays as early as 524 BC.[1]
Choerilus started writing tragedies when he was 22 years old. He staged 160 plays and won the prize 13 times.[2] His works are all lost; only Pausanias mentions a play by him entitled Alope (a mythological personage who was the subject of dramas by Euripides and Carcinus).[3] He lived in Athens for most of his life.
- ^ Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Suda χ 594
- ^ Chisholm 1911 cites Pausanias vol. i. p. 14.