Nichomachus ( grc-gre, Νιχόμαχος ) was a

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...

who lived in

Athens 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 ...

in the 5th century BC. He was a younger contemporary of

Sophocles Sophocles (; grc, Σοφοκλῆς, , Sophoklễs; 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41. is one of three ancient Greek tragedians, at least one of whose plays has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or co ...

. Only the following titles and associated fragments of Nichomachus's plays have survived: ''Alcmaeon'', ''Aletides'', ''Alexander'', ''Geryones'', ''Eriphyle'', ''Mysians'', ''Neoptolemus'', ''Polyxena'', ''Teucer'', and ''Tyndareos''. He also wrote a play titled ''

Oedipus Oedipus (, ; grc-gre, Οἰδίπους "swollen foot") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. A tragic hero in Greek mythology, Oedipus accidentally fulfilled a prophecy that he would end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby ...

''.

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