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'''Machon''' ([[Ancient Greek]]: Μάχων, fl. 3rd century BC) was a [[playwright]] of the [[New Comedy]]. | '''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]]. 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 [[Athens|Athenians]], preserved in the ''[[Deipnosophistae]]'' of [[Athenaeus]]. [[Dioscorides]] wrote an [[epitaph]] for Machon that has also survived. | He was born in [[Ancient Corinth|Corinth]] or [[Sicyon]], and lived in [[Alexandria]]. 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 [[Athens|Athenians]], preserved in the ''[[Deipnosophistae]]'' of [[Athenaeus]]. [[Dioscorides]] wrote an [[epitaph]] for Machon that has also survived. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Latest revision as of 23:08, 18 August 2025
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "about". Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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. 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.
References
- A. S. F. Gow, Machon: The Fragments (Cambridge, 1965) hardback Template:ISBN, paperback Template:ISBN, info online
- Rudolf Kassel and Colin Austin, Poetae Comici Graeci, vol. V, pp. 623–5 (the two comic fragments, XIX and XX in Gow)
- Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898).Machon