Philocles "Erigone", "Nauplius", "Oineus", "Priam", and "Penelope". Philocles Philocles (), was an Athenian tragic poet during the 5th century BC. Through his mother, Philopatho (), he had three famous uncles: Aeschylus, the famous poet, Cynaegirus, hero of the battle of Marathon, and Ameinias, hero of the battle of Salamis. The Suda claims that Philocles was the father of the tragic playwright Morsimus, who was in turn the father of the tragedian Astydamas According to the Suda, Philocles wrote 100 tragedies. Philocles is best known for winning first prize in the competition against Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex". Philocles also wrote a play on
Oedipus Rex Schickele parodies both the story of "Oedipus rex" and the music of Stravinsky's oratorio-opera of the same name in "Oedipus Tex", a Western-themed oratorio purportedly written by P.D.Q. Bach, released in 1990 on the album "Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities". Chrysanthos Mentis Bostantzoglou makes a parody of this tragedy in his comedy "Medea" (1993). In episode ten of the second season of '"CNNNN"', an Australian satirical television program made by The Chaser, a short animation in the style of a Disney movie trailer, complete with jaunty music provided by Andrew Hansen, parodies "Oedipus Rex". Apart from being advertised as