Antiphanes

Antiphănes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A comic poet of Rhodes, Smyrna, or Carystus, born B.C. 408, of parents in the low condition of slaves. This most prolific writer (he is said to have composed upwards of three hundred dramas), notwithstanding the meanness of his origin, was so popular in Athens that on his decease a decree was passed to remove his remains from Chios to that city, wh...

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Antiphanes in Wikipedia

Antiphanes (comic poet) Antiphanes, the most important writer of the Middle Attic comedy with the exception of Alexis, lived from about 408 to 334 BCE. He was apparently a foreigner (perhaps from Cius, on the Propontis, Smyrna or Rhodes)[1] who settled in Athens , where he began to write about 387. He was extremely prolific: more than 200 of the 3...

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