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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

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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

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