Ameipsias

Ameipsias in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Ameipsias （Ἀμειψίας). A Greek poet of the Old Comedy, contemporary with Aristophanes, whom he twice overcame. Of his plays only slight fragments remain (Ran. 14)....

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Ameipsias in Wikipedia

Ameipsias (Ancient Greek: Ἀμειψίας, fl. late 5th century BC) of Athens was a Ancient Greek comic poet, a contemporary of Aristophanes, whom he twice bested in the dramatic contests. His Konnos (Κόννος) gained a second prize at the City Dionysia in 423 BC, when Aristophanes won the third prize with The Clouds.[1][2] Konnos appears to have had the s...

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