AGATHON (450?-400? B.C.), Athenian Dramatist

None of Agathon's tragedies have survived, but Agathon himself earned a place in literary history when a banquet in his home, in 416 B.C., served as a basis for Plato's famous Symposium. He is also noteworthy as history's first recorded example of a stereotypically effeminate homosexual; he was portrayed in that role in Aristophanes' comedy, The Thesmophoriazusae.