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Stratti

In greco Stráttis-idos: poeta dell’antica commedia greca vissuto verso la fine del V e l’inizio del IV secolo aC, citato varie volte da Ateneo. Le uniche notizie relative alla sua attivitŕ di commediografo sono le seguenti.

Hermippus, in his work On Isocrates, says that Isocrates, when considerably advanced in years, took the courtesan Lagisca into his house, and from her there was born to him a daughter. She is mentioned by Strattis in these lines: "Methought I saw Lagisca, Isocrates' concubine, tickling me while she was still in bed, and then the flute-borer himself came in with a rush." Lysias also, in the speech Against Lais, if it be genuine, mentions her in giving a list of other courtesans besides; her are his words: "Philyra, at leased, ceased whoring when still a young woman, and so also did Scione, Hippaphesis, Theocleia, Psamathe, Lagisca, Antheia, and Aristocleia."

Isocrates was the son of Theodorus, an Athenian citizen of the deme of Erchia - the same in which, about 431 BC, Xenophon was born - who was sufficiently wealthy to have served the state as choregus. The fact that he possessed slaves skilled in the trade of flute-making perhaps lends point to a passage in which his son is mentioned by the comic poet Strattis.