Xenocles

Xenocles in Wikipedia

Xenocles (Ξενοκλῆς) or Zenocles was an Ancient Greek tragedian. There were two Athenian tragic poets of this name, one the grandfather of the other. No fragments of either are currently known, except for a few words of the elder apparently parodied in Aristophanes' "The Clouds". Aristophanes called the elder Xenocles an execrable poet and was nev...

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Xenŏcles in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Ξενοκλῆς). An Athenian tragic poet, ridiculed by Aristophanes, and yet the conqueror of Euripides on one occasion (B.C. 415). He was of dwarfish stature, and son of the tragic poet Carcinus. In the Peace, Aristophanes applies the term μηχανοδίφας to the family. From the scholiast it appears that Xenocles was celebrated for introducing stage machin...

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