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.

(yūfôr'ēən) , c.275–187? B.C., Greek poet, b. Chalcis. He was made (c.223 B.C.) librarian at Antioch by Antiochus the Great and held the position until his death. Highly regarded by Latin poets of the 1st cent. B.C., the few remaining fragments of Euphorion's work show his indebtedness to such poets as Callimachus.

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