Magnes (

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: Μάγνης) was an

Athenian Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

comic poet 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 ...

of the 5th century BC. Magnes and his contemporary

Chionides Chionides (Greek: Χιονίδης or Χιωνίδης) an Athenian comic poet of the 5th century BC, contemporary of Magnes. The ''Suda'' says that Chionides flourished eight years before the Greco-Persian Wars, that is, 487 BC. But Augustus Mein ...

are the earliest comic poets for whom victories are recorded in the literary competition of the

Dionysia The Dionysia (, , ; Greek: Διονύσια) was a large festival in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus, the central events of which were the theatrical performances of dramatic tragedies and, from 487 BC, comedies. It was the s ...

festival. Titles of his comedies: *''Βαρβίτιδες'' (Barbitides), Guitarists of

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*''Βάτραχοι'' ( Batrachoi), Frogs *''Γαλεομυομαχία'' (Galeomyomachia), Battle of Cats and Mice *''Διόνυσος'' (Dionysos),

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*''Λυδοί'' ( Lydoi), Lydians *''Ὄρνιθες'' ( Ornithes), Birds *''Πιτακίς ή Πυτακίδης'' (Pitakis or Pytakidis, related to Pita, Pytia or Pittakion,

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) *''Ποάστρια'' (Poastria), Female Farm-Worker (derived from Poa) *''Ψῆνες'' (Psenes),

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References

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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology The ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'' (1849, originally published 1844 under a slightly different title) is an encyclopedia/biographical dictionary. Edited by William Smith, the dictionary spans three volumes and 3,700 ...

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Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of ph ...

, '' Poetics'', II

5th-century BC Athenians Ancient Greek dramatists and playwrights 5th-century BC writers Old Comic poets {{AncientGreece-poet-stub