Xenarchus (Ancient Greek: Ξέναρχος) was a Greek comic poet 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 ...

. None of his plays have survived, but

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 ...

preserves several quotations from his plays in the

Deipnosophistae The ''Deipnosophistae'' is an early 3rd-century AD Greek work ( grc, Δειπνοσοφισταί, ''Deipnosophistaí'', lit. "The Dinner Sophists/Philosophers/Experts") by the Greek author Athenaeus of Naucratis. It is a long work of liter ...

.Athenaeus, ''Deipnosophistae'' 2.63F

Surviving titles and fragments

The following eight titles, along with associated fragments, of Xenarhus' work have survived: * ''Boucolion'' * ''The Pentathlete'' * ''Porphyra'' * ''Priapus'' * ''Scythians'' * ''Sleep'' * ''The Soldier'' * ''Twins''

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