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Aristophon (comic poet)

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Aristophon (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοφῶν) was an Athenian comic poet of the Middle Comedy. He was probably victorious at least once at the Lenaia around 350 BCE (IG II2 2325.151).

Surviving titles and fragments

The following eight titles, along with fifteen associated fragments, are all that has survived of Aristophon's work:

  • Babias
  • Twin Girls, or Pyraunos
  • The Physician
  • Callonides
  • Perithous
  • Plato
  • The Pythagorean
  • Philonides

References

  • Rudolf Kassel and Colin Austin, Poetae Comici Graeci, Vol. 4
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