Antiphanes (Ancient Greek: Ἀντιφάνης; c. 408 to 334 BCE) is regarded as the most important writer of the Middle Attic comedy with the exception of Alexis.
This cites: * Koch, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta, ii. (1884) (fragments)
* Clinton, Philological Museum, i. (1832)
* Meineke, Historia Critica Comicorum Graecorum (1839)
He was apparently a foreigner (perhaps from Cius on the Propontis, Smyrna or RhodesManual of Greek Literature: From the Earliest Authentic Periods to the Close of Byzantine Era Page 221 by Charles Anthon (1853)) and, by some accounts, was the child of slaves.Suda α 2745 He settled in Athens, where he began to write about 387.
He was extremely prolific: more than 200 of the 365 (or 260) comedies attributed to him are known from the titles and considerable fragments preserved in Athenaeus.
His plays chiefly deal with matters connected to mythological subjects, although others referenced particular professional and national persons or characters, while other plays focused on the intrigues of personal life.
The Suda claims he died at the age of seventy-four after being struck by a pear.
About 130 titles of his plays are known.
Stephanus, an Athenian comic poet of the New Comedy, is said to have exhibited some of the plays of Antiphanes and was probably his son.
One quotation by Athenaeus is the only surviving fragment of the works of Stephanus.
Surviving titles and fragments
Adelphai ("Sisters")
Adonis
Agroikos ("The Country-Dweller")
Akestria
Akontizomene ("Woman Shot With an Arrow")
Aleiptria ("The Female Oiler, or Masseuse")
Alkestis ("Alcestis")
Antaios ("Antaeus")
Anteia
Anasozomenoi  ("The Rescued Men")
Aphrodites Gonai ("Aphrodite's Birth" )
Archestrate
Archon
Argyriou Aphanismos  ("Disappearance of Money")
Arkas ("Man from Arcadia")
Arpazomene  ("The Seized, or Captured, Woman")
Asklepios ("Asclepius")
Asotoi ("Debauched Men")
Auletes ("Male Flute-Player")
Auletris ("Female Flute-Player"), or Didymai ("Twin Sisters")
Autou Eron
Bakchai ("Bacchae")
Batalos
Boiotis ("The Woman From Boeotia")
Bombylios
Bousiris ("Busiris")
Boutalion
Byzantios ("The Man From Byzantium")
Cyclops
Chrysis
Gamos  ("Marriage")
Ganymedes ("Ganymede")
Glaukos ("Glaucus")
Gorgythos
Diplasia ("Female Double")
Dodonis ("The Woman From Dodona")
Drapetagogos ("Catcher of Runaway Slaves")
Dyserotes ("People With Disastrous Love-Lives")
Dyspratos ("The Hard-To-Sell Slave")
Ephesia ("The Woman From Ephesus")
Epidaurios ("The Man From Epidaurus")
Epikleros ("The Heiress")
Euploia ("A Pleasant Voyage")
Euthydikos
Halieuomene  ("Woman Caught Like A Fish")
Heniochos ("The Charioteer")
Hippeis ("Knights")
Homoioi ("People Who Resemble Each Other")
Homonymoi  ("People With The Same Name")
Homopatrioi ("People With The Same Father")
Hydria  ("The Water-Pitcher")
Hypnos  ("Sleep")
Iatros ("The Physician")
Kaineus ("Caeneus")
Kares  ("Men From Caria")
Karine ("The Woman From Caria")
Kepouros ("The Gardener")
Kitharistes ("The Harpist")
Kitharodos ("The Citharode")
Kleophanes
Knapheus  ("The Fuller")
Knoithideus, or Gastron ("Glutton")
Korinthia ("The Woman From Corinth")
Koroplathos ("Modeller of Clay Figures")
Korykos
Kouris ("The Female Hair-Dresser")
Kybeutai ("Dice-Players")
Lampas  ("The Torch")
Lampon
Lemniai  ("Women From Lemnos")
Leonides
Leptiniskos
Leukadios ("The Man From Leucas")
Lydos  ("The Man From Lydia")
Medeia  ("Medea")
Melanion
Meleagros ("Meleager")
Melitta ("The Bee")
Metoikos ("Resident Alien")
Metragyrtes ("Beggar-Priest of Cybele")
Metrophon
Midon
Minos ("Minos")
Misoponeros ("Hater of Wickedness")
Mnemata  ("The Tombs")
Moichoi  ("Adulterers")
Mylon  ("The Mill")
Mystis  ("Woman Initiated Into the Mysteries")
Obrimos
Oinomaos, or Pelops
Oionistes  ("The Omen-Reader")
Omphale ("Omphale")
Orpheus ("Orpheus")
Paiderastes ("The Pederast")
Parasitos  ("The Parasite")
Paroimiai ("Proverbs")
Phaon ("Phaon")
Philetairos ("Philetaerus")
Philoktetes ("Philoctetes")
Philometor ("Mother-Lover")
Philopator ("Father-Lover")
Philotis
Phrearrhios
Plousioi  ("Rich Men")
Poiesis  ("Poetry")
Pontikos  ("Man From Pontus")
Probateus  ("The Sheep-Rancher")
Problema ("Problem," or "Riddle")
Progonoi  ("Ancestors")
Pyraunos
Sappho
Skleriai  ("Difficulties," or "Hardships")
Skythai ("Scythians"), or Tauroi ("Bulls")
Stratiotes ("The Soldier"), or Tychon
Thamyras
Timon
Traumatias ("The Wounded Man")
Tritagonistes
Tyrrhenus
Zakynthios ("The Man From Zakynthos")
Zographos  ("The Painter")
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