Xenarchus
Xenarchus (Ancient Greek: Ξέναρχος) was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy. None of his plays have survived, but Athenaeus preserves several quotations from his plays in the Deipnosophistae.
Xenarchus
- Born
- 400
- Died
- 360
- Nationality
- Classical Athens
- Occupation
- poet · writer
- Movements
- Middle Comedy
- Languages
- Ancient Greek
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Xenarchus (Ancient Greek: Ξέναρχος) was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy. None of his plays have survived, but Athenaeus preserves several quotations from his plays in the Deipnosophistae.
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The following eight titles, along with associated fragments, of Xenarhus' work have lived on: • Boucolion • The Pentathlete • Porphyra • Priapus • Scythians • Sleep • The Soldier • Twins
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