Machon
Machon (Ancient Greek: Μάχων, fl. 3rd century BC) was a playwright of the New Comedy. He was born in Corinth or Sicyon, and lived in Alexandria.
Machon
- Born
- 300 · Corinth.
- Occupation
- poet · comedy writer
- Movements
- New Comedy
- Languages
- Ancient Greek
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Machon (Ancient Greek: Μάχων, fl. 3rd century BC) was a playwright of the New Comedy. He was born in Corinth or Sicyon, and lived in Alexandria.
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It is said that he taught the grammarian Aristophanes of Byzantium. Two fragments from two of his plays, Agnoia (Ignorance) and Epistole (The Letter), survive, along with 462 verses from a book of anecdotes about the words and deeds of notorious Athenians, preserved in the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus. Dioscorides wrote an epitaph for Machon that has also survived.
The recorded working language is Ancient Greek. Residence is recorded at Alexandria.
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Machon born at Corinth.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q3842153: Machon
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1028793421, Machon, Josef.
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 1028793421, Machon, Josef.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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