Ion of Chios
5th-century BC Greek poet, dramatist and philosopher
- Lived
- 489 BC–421 BC
- Country
- Ancient Greece
Updated September 2026
About Ion of Chios
Ion of Chios was a Greek writer, dramatist, lyric poet and philosopher. He was a contemporary of Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles. Of his many plays and poems only a few titles and fragments have survived. He also wrote some prose works, including a Pythagorean text, the Triagmos, of which a few fragments survive.
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