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Xenarchus (comic poet)

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Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy

Xenarchus (Ancient Greek: Ξέναρχος) was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy. None of his plays have survived, but Athenaeus preserves several quotations from his plays in the Deipnosophistae.

Surviving titles and fragments

The following eight titles, along with associated fragments, of Xenarhus' work have lived on:

  • Boucolion
  • The Pentathlete
  • Porphyra
  • Priapus
  • Scythians
  • Sleep
  • The Soldier
  • Twins

References

  1. Suda ξ 21
  2. Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 2.63F
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