Machon
Sign in to saveMachon (Ancient Greek: Μάχων, fl. 3rd century BC) was a playwright of the New Comedy.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Machon is referenced by 8 other articles, and connects out to Athens, Ancient Greece and Alexandria.
It is catalogued under topics including 3rd-century BC Greek people, Ancient Corinthians and Ancient Sicyonians.
Its subject is documented across 10 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
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- Listeners
- 181
- Total plays
- 1,548
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Corinth
- Occupation
- poet
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Movement
- New Comedy
- Residence
- Alexandria
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- floruit
- 0300-00-00
- date of birth
- 0300-00-00
- writing language
- Ancient Greek
- significant place
- Sicyon
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Machon (Ancient Greek: Μάχων, fl. 3rd century BC) was a playwright of the New Comedy.
He was born in Corinth or Sicyon, and lived in Alexandria. It is said that he taught the grammarian Aristophanes of Byzantium. Two fragments from two of his plays, Agnoia (Ignorance) and Epistole (The Letter), survive, along with 462 verses from a book of anecdotes about the words and deeds of notorious Athenians, preserved in the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus. Dioscorides wrote an epitaph for Machon that has also survived.
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