Nicostratus (Νικόστρατος) was a Greek playwright of the
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 ...
. He was said to be the youngest son of
Aristophanes.
Photius
Photios I ( el, Φώτιος, ''Phōtios''; c. 810/820 – 6 February 893), also spelled PhotiusFr. Justin Taylor, essay "Canon Law in the Age of the Fathers" (published in Jordan Hite, T.O.R., & Daniel J. Ward, O.S.B., "Readings, Cases, Materia ...
claims that Nicostratus leaped from the Leucadian Rock due to an unrequited love for a woman named Tettigidaea ( grc, Τεττιγιδαία) from
Myrrinous
Myrrhinus or Myrrinous ( grc, Μυρρινοῦς) was a deme of ancient Attica. It lay to the east of Prasiae. Artemis Colaenis was worshipped at Myrrhinus; and in one of the inscriptions recovered at Merenda mention is made of a temple of Arte ...
and was "cured" of his love.
[Photius, Cod, 190, p. 153, ed. Bekk.]
Surviving titles and fragments
The following twenty three titles, along with associated fragments, are all that survive of Nicostratus' work:
* ''Favorite Slave''
* ''Female Love-Rival''
* ''Antyllus''
* ''Man Being Driven Away''
* ''Kings''
* ''The Accuser''
* ''Hecate''
* ''Hesiod''
* ''The Hierophant''
* ''The Bed''
* ''Laconians''
* ''The Cook''
* ''Oenopion''
* ''The Bird-Catcher''
* ''Pandarus''
* ''Pandrosus''
* ''Woman Swimming Alongside''
* ''Citizens''
* ''Wealth''
* ''The Syrian''
* ''The Moneylender''
* ''The Falsely-Branded''
* ''The Bustard-Bird''
References
{{authority control
Ancient Greek dramatists and playwrights
Middle Comic poets