Xenarchus (comic poet)
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Xenarchus (Ancient Greek: Ξέναρχος) was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy.[1] None of his plays have survived, but Athenaeus preserves several quotations from his plays in the Deipnosophistae.[2]
Surviving titles and fragments
The following eight titles, along with associated fragments, of Xenarhus' work have lived on:
- Boucolion
- The Pentathlete
- Porphyra
- Priapus
- Scythians
- Sleep
- The Soldier
- Twins
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