Template:Did you know nominations/Philoctetes (Aeschylus)

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The result was: promoted by BlueMoonset (talk) 01:05, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Philoctetes (Aeschylus), Philoctetes (Euripides)

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• ... that much of what we know of Aeschylus' lost play Philoctetes and Euripides' lost Philoctetes is based on the work of Dio Chrysostom, who compared those plays with Sophocles' extant Philoctetes?

• Reviewed: M-Maybe, Charles Singleton (songwriter)

Created/expanded by Rlendog (talk). Self nom at 15:42, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

• Both of these look fine to me. If you're going to take them further (there's definitely good prospects for Euripedes' version) then perhaps converting the references to a shortened format wouldn't be a bad idea; either by hand or with {{sfn}}. They're fine for DYK purposes though. I'm surprised you don't cite Dio directly though, it might make an interesting read to see contemporaryish criticism and that several millennia hence intermingled. The articles a good to go. I'll suggest a slightly shortened alt though, as I think you could lose some repetition of the name in the hook:

  ALT1: ... that much of what we know of lost plays on Philoctetes by Aeschylus and Euripedes is based on Dio Chrysostom comparing them to Sophocles' extant version?

• GRAPPLE X 21:07, 16 July 2012 (UTC)