Amphis (

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: Ἄμφις) was an

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comic poet of uncertain origin from approximately the 4th century BC. Pollux seems to refer to Amphis as a Middle Comedy poet, and Amphis' own repeated references to the philosopher

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Amphis (frr. 6; 13) place him in the early to mid-4th century BC. His name is not

, and he was probably from the island of

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(thus Kirchner).

Surviving titles and fragments

49 fragments of his comedies survive, along with the following 28 titles. *''Athamas'' *''Acco'' *''Aleiptria'' (The Female Oiler, or Masseuse) *''Alcmaeon'' *''Ampleourgos'' (The Vine-Dresser) *''Amphicrates'' *''Balaneion'' (The Bath-House) *''Gynaikokratia'' (Women in Power) *''Gynaikomania'' (Crazy About Women) *''Daktylios'' (The Ring) *''Dexidemides'' *''Dithyrambos'' (The

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) *''Hepta Epi Thebais'' (Seven Against Thebes) *''Erithoi'' (Day-Labourers) *''Ialemos'' (The Oaf, or the Dirge) *''Kallisto'' ( Callisto) *''Koniates'' (The Plasterer) *''Kouris'' (The Female Barber) *''Kybeutai'' (The Dice-Players) *''Leukas'' (The Girl From

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) *''Odysseus'' *''Opora'' *''Ouranos'' (

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) *''Pan'' *''Planos'' (The Vagabond Acrobat) *''Sappho'' *''Philadelphoi'' (Men Who Love Their Brothers) *''Philetairos'' (The Man Who Loved His Comrades). The standard edition of the fragments and testimonia is in

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and

Colin François Lloyd Austin Colin François Lloyd Austin, FBA (26 July 1941 – 13 August 2010) was a British scholar of ancient Greek. Biography Colin Austin was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1941, the second son of Lloyd James Austin (1915–1994) and of Jeanne-Fra ...

's ''Poetae Comici Graeci'' Vol. II. The eight-volume ''Poetae Comici Graeci'' produced from 1983 to 2001 replaces the outdated collections ''Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum'' by

August Meineke Johann Albrecht Friedrich August Meineke (also ''Augustus Meineke''; ; 8 December 179012 December 1870), German classical scholar, was born at Soest in the Duchy of Westphalia. He was father-in-law to philologist Theodor Bergk.

(1839-1857), ''Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta'' by

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(1880-1888) and ''Comicorum Graecorum Fragmenta'' by

Georg Kaibel Georg Kaibel (30 October 1849 – 12 October 1901) was a German classical philologist born in Lübeck. He was a leading authority of Greek epigraphy and epigrammatics He studied classical philology at the Universities of Göttingen and Bonn. ...

(1899).

References

Ancient Greek dramatists and playwrights 4th-century BC Greek people Middle Comic poets Ancient Andros Metics in Classical Athens People from Andros Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown {{Greece-poet-stub