Antiphanes (comic poet)
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Antiphanes (about 408 to 334 BCE) is regarded[by whom?] as the most important writer of the Middle Attic comedy with the exception of Alexis.
He was apparently a foreigner (perhaps from Cius, on the Propontis, Smyrna or Rhodes)[1] who settled in Athens , where he began to write about 387. He was extremely prolific: more than 200 of the 365 (or 260) comedies attributed to him are known to us from the titles and considerable fragments preserved in Athenaeus. They chiefly deal with matters connected with the table, but contain many striking sentiments. About 130 titles of his plays are known.[2]
Stephanus, Athenian comic poet of the New Comedy, is said to have exhibited some of the plays of Antiphanes and was probably his son. One quotation by Athenaeus is the only surviving fragment of the works of Stephanus.[3]
[edit] Surviving Titles and Fragments
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[edit] Notes
- ^ Manual of Greek Literature: From the Earliest Authentic Periods to the Close of Byzantine Era Page 221 by Charles Anthon (1853)
- ^ Smith, Sir William (ed.) (1849). "Antiphanes, a comic poet". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Boston: Little & Brown. p. 204. http://books.google.com/books?id=QakDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA204.
- ^ Smith, Sir William, ed. (1859). "STEPHANUS, literary". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. vol. III. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. p. 904. http://books.google.com/books?id=UcwPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA904.
[edit] References
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Antiphanes". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. which in turn cites:
- Koch, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta, ii (1884) (fragments)
- Clinton, Philological Museum, i (1832)
- Meineke, Historia Critica Comicorum Graecorum (1839)
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