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Anthippus (Ancient Greek: Ἄνθιππος) was a Greek comic poet, a play of whose is cited by Athenaeus. His existence is uncertain however, and we ought perhaps to read "Anaxippus" (Ἀναξίππῳ) here.

The rhetorician Julius Pollux ascribes the creation of the Lydian mode to an Anthippus, though this attribution is considered more mythological than historical.

Notes

1. Athenaeus, ix. p. 403
2. Platthy, Jenő (1985). The mythical poets of Greece. Federation of International Poetry Associations. p. 58. ISBN 9789290420156. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
3. Pindar (2001). Rutherford, Ian (ed.). Pindar's Paeans: A Reading of the Fragments with a Survey of the Genre. Oxford University Press. p. 360. ISBN 9780198143819. Retrieved 2016-01-10.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, Philip (1870). "Anthippus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 184.

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