The following people were all minor authors of Greek
Middle Comedy
Ancient Greek comedy was one of the final three principal dramatic forms in the theatre of classical Greece (the others being tragedy and the satyr play). Athenian comedy is conventionally divided into three periods: Old Comedy, Middle Comedy, an ...
. None of their works have survived intact, but later writers of Late Antiquity provide the titles of some of their plays as well as brief quotations.
D
Diocles
The following six titles, along with associated fragments, are all that survives of Diocles' ( grc-gre, Διοκλῆς) work. The Suda states that some accounts claimed that Diocles invented a means of playing music by striking saucers and pottery vessels with a wooden stick.
*''The Bacchae''
*''Bees''
*''The Cyclopes''
*''Dreams''
*''Thalatta'' (name of a courtesan)
*''Thyestes''
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Ophelion
Kassel-Austin places Ophelion ( grc-gre, Ὠφελίων) in the Middle Comedy period. The Suda credits him with six plays: ''Callaeschrus'', ''Centaur'', ''Deucalion'', ''Muses'', ''Recluses'', and ''Satyrs''.
Athenaeus
Athenaeus of Naucratis (; grc, Ἀθήναιος ὁ Nαυκρατίτης or Nαυκράτιος, ''Athēnaios Naukratitēs'' or ''Naukratios''; la, Athenaeus Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of th ...
cites his work four times.
S
Sophilus
The Suda claims that Sophilus ( grc-gre, Σώφιλος) was from either
Sicyon
Sicyon (; el, Σικυών; ''gen''.: Σικυῶνος) or Sikyon was an ancient Greek city state situated in the northern Peloponnesus between Corinth and Achaea on the territory of the present-day regional unit of Corinthia. An ancient mona ...
or
Thebes. The following nine titles, along with associated fragments, are all that survives of Sophilus' work.
*''Androcles''
*''The Citharode''
*''The Deposit''
*''The Handbook''
*''Marriage''
*''The Phylarch''
*''Those Running Together''
*''The Woman From
Delos
The island of Delos (; el, Δήλος ; Attic: , Doric: ), near Mykonos, near the centre of the Cyclades archipelago, is one of the most important mythological, historical, and archaeological sites in Greece. The excavations in the island are ...
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*''Tyndareos'' or ''Leda''
Sotades of Athens
The Suda confuses this playwright with the iambic poet
Sotades
Sotades ( el, Σωτάδης; 3rd century BC) was an Ancient Greek literature#Hellenistic poetry, Ancient Greek poet.
Biography
Sotades was born in Maroneia, either the one in Thrace, or in Crete. He lived in History of Alexandria#Ptolemaic era, ...
of
Maroneia
Maroneia ( el, Μαρώνεια) is a village and a former municipality in Rhodope regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Maroneia-Sapes, of which it is a munic ...
. Of his work, only the following three titles (along with associated fragments) have come down to us: ''Charinus'', ''The Ransomed Man'', and ''The Shut-In Women''.
T
Theophilus
The following nine titles, along with associated fragments, are all that survives of Theophilus' ( grc-gre, Θεόφιλος) work.
*''The Citharode''
*''The Daughters of
Proetus
In Greek mythology, Proetus (; Ancient Greek: Προῖτος ''Proitos'') may refer to the following personages:
*Proetus, king of Argos and Tiryns, son of Abas and twin brother of Acrisius.
*Proetus, a prince of Corinth as the son of Prince T ...
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*''The Flute-Lover''
*''The Men From Epidaurus''
*''
Neoptolemus
In Greek mythology, Neoptolemus (; ), also called Pyrrhus (; ), was the son of the warrior Achilles and the princess Deidamia, and the brother of Oneiros. He became the mythical progenitor of the ruling dynasty of the Molossians of ancient Epi ...
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*''The Pancratiast''
*''The Physician''
*''Those Traveling Abroad''
*''Women From
Boeotia
Boeotia ( ), sometimes Latinized as Boiotia or Beotia ( el, Βοιωτία; modern: ; ancient: ), formerly known as Cadmeis, is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Central Greece. Its capital is Livadeia, and its lar ...
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Timotheus of Athens
The Suda lists four plays by Timotheus of Athens ( grc-gre, Τιμόθεος ὁ Ἀθηναῖος): ''The Boxer'', ''The Changing Man'' (or ''The Shifting Man''), ''The Deposit'', and ''The Puppy''. Only one four-line quotation of Timotheus' work survives, a quotation from ''The Puppy'' by Athenaeus.
[Athenaeus, ''Deipnosophistae'', 6.243c]
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Xenarchus
The following eight titles, along with associated fragments, are all that survives of
Xenarchus
Xenarchus ( el, Ξέναρχος; 1st century BC) of Seleucia in Cilicia, was a Greek Peripatetic philosopher and grammarian. Xenarchus left home early, and devoted himself to the profession of teaching, first at Alexandria, afterwards at Athen ...
' work.
*''Boutalion''
*''The Pentathlete''
*''Porphyra'' (possibly written by
Timocles)
*''Priapus''
*''The Scythians''
*''Sleep''
*''The Soldier''
*''The Twins''
References
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Ancient Greek dramatists and playwrights
Ancient Greek poets
Middle Comic poets