Anaxilas (), also called Anaxilas Comicus, (
fl. 340 BC) was a
Greek comic poet of the
Middle Comedy
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period. Based on his name, he has been presumed of
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origin. He was, along with several other Middle Comedy poets (e.g.
Antiphanes,
Anaxandrides
Anaxandrides ( grc, Ἀναξανδρίδης) was an Ancient Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy. His father was Anaxander ( grc, Ανάξανδρος).
He was victorious ten times (test. 1. 3), first in 376, according to the Marmor Parium (FG ...
,
Amphis
Amphis (Greek: Ἄμφις) was an Athenian 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 PlatoAmphis (frr. 6; ...
,
Alexis Alexis may refer to:
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* Alexis (poet) ( – ), a Greek comic poet
* Alexis (sculptor), an ancient Greek artist who lived around the 3rd or 4th century BC
* Alexis (singer) (born 1968), German pop singer
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,
Epicrates, Eubulides,
Sophilus, and Dionysius of Sinope, all of apparently non-
Attic
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origin) part of the increasing influence of non-Attic poets following the fifth century BC.
He was one of several comic poets mentioned by
Diogenes Laërtius
Diogenes Laërtius ( ; grc-gre, Διογένης Λαέρτιος, ; ) was a biographer of the Ancient Greece, Greek philosophers. Nothing is definitively known about his life, but his surviving ''Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'' is a ...
, as having "ridiculed"
Plato
Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution ...
.
Surviving Titles and Fragments
Titles for twenty one of his plays are known, but only fragments of his works remain.
[Edmonds]
pp. 332–348
*''The Rustic Man''
*''Exchange''
*''The Pipe-Player''
*''Botrylion''
*''Glaucus''
*''Manliness''
*''Thrasyleon''
*''Calypso''
*''Circe''
*''Cyclops''
*''Lyremakers'' (or possibly ''Perfume-makers'')
*''Cooks''
*''The Recluse''
*''Neottis''
*''Nereus''
*''Bird-Keepers''
*''Wealthy Men'' (or possibly ''Wealthy Women'')
*''Hyacinthus'', or ''Hyacinthus the Pimp''
*''Graces''
*''The Goldsmith''
*''Seasons''
Notes
References
* Arnold, Sir Edwin, ''The Poets of Greece'', London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1869.
* Csapo, Eric, Hans Rupprecht Goette, J. Richard Green, Peter Wilson, ''Greek Theatre in the Fourth Century BC'', Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2014.
* Edmonds, ''The Fragments of "Attic Comedy" After Meineke, Bergk, and Kock: Augm., Newly Ed. with Their Contexts, Annot., and Completely Transl. Into English Verse. Old comedy'', Brill Archive, 1959.
*
Smith, William; ''
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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'', London (1873)
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