Anthippus

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Anthippus (Ancient Greek: Ἄνθιππος) was a Greek comic poet, a play of whose is cited by Athenaeus.[1] His existence is uncertain however, and we ought perhaps to read "Anaxippus" (Ἀναξίππῳ) here.

The rhetorician Julius Pollux ascribes the creation of the Lydian mode to an Anthippus,[2] though this attribution is considered more mythological than historical.[3]

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  1. ^ Athenaeus, ix. p. 403
  2. ^ Platthy, Jenő (1985). The mythical poets of Greece. Federation of International Poetry Associations. p. 58. ISBN 9789290420156. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
  3. ^ Pindar (2001). Rutherford, Ian (ed.). Pindar's Paeans: A Reading of the Fragments with a Survey of the Genre. Oxford University Press. p. 360. ISBN 9780198143819. Retrieved 2016-01-10.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSmith, Philip (1870). "Anthippus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 184.