The following people were all minor authors of Greek

Middle Comedy Ancient Greek comedy () was one of the final three principal dramatic forms in the theatre of classical Greece; the others being tragedy and the satyr play The satyr play is a form of Attic theatre performance related to both comedy and trag ...

. None of their works have survived intact, but later writers of Late Antiquity provide the titles of some of their plays as well as brief quotations.

Diocles

The following six titles, along with associated fragments, are all that survives of Diocles' () work. The Suda states that some accounts claimed that Diocles invented a means of playing music by striking saucers and pottery vessels with a wooden stick. *''The Bacchae'' *''Bees'' *''The Cyclopes'' *''Dreams'' *''Thalatta'' (name of a courtesan) *''Thyestes''

Diodorus

The following five titles, along with associated fragments, are all that survives of Diodorus' () work. *''The Corpse'' *''The Female Flautist'' *''The Heiress'' *''The Madman'' *''People at the Assembly''

Ophelion

Kassel-Austin places Ophelion () in the Middle Comedy period. The Suda credits him with six plays: ''Callaeschrus'', ''Centaur'', ''Deucalion'', ''Muses'', ''Recluses'', and ''Satyrs''.

Athenaeus Athenaeus of Naucratis (, or Nαυκράτιος, ''Athēnaios Naukratitēs'' or ''Naukratios''; ) was an ancient Greek rhetorician and Grammarian (Greco-Roman), grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century ...

cites his work four times.

Philiscus

The following eight titles, along with associated fragments, are all that survives of Philiscus' () work. *''Adonis'' *''(The Birth) of Artemis and Apollo'' *''The Birth of Pan'' *''The Birth of Hermes and Aphrodite'' (possibly two separate plays) *''The Birth of Zeus'' *''Lovers of Money'' *''Olympus'' *''Themistocles''

Polyzelus

The following six titles, along with associated fragments, are all that survives of Polyzelus' () work. *''The Public Tyndareus'' *''The Birth of Aphrodite'' *''The Birth of Ares'' *''The Birth of Dionysus'' *''The Birth of the Muses'' *''The Wash Basin''

Sophilus

The Suda claims that Sophilus () was from either

Sicyon Sicyon (; ; ''gen''.: Σικυῶνος) or Sikyōn was an ancient Greek city state situated in the northern Peloponnesus between Corinth and Achaea on the territory of the present-day regional unit of Corinthia. The ruins lie just west of th ...

or Thebes. The following nine titles, along with associated fragments, are all that survives of Sophilus' work. *''Androcles'' *''The Citharode'' *''The Deposit'' *''The Handbook'' *''Marriage'' *''The Phylarch'' *''Those Running Together'' *''The Woman From

Delos Delos (; ; ''Dêlos'', ''Dâlos''), is a small Greek island near Mykonos, close to the centre of the Cyclades archipelago. Though only in area, it is one of the most important mythological, historical, and archaeological sites in Greece. ...

'' *''Tyndareos'' or ''Leda''

Sotades of Athens

The Suda confuses this playwright with the iambic poet

Sotades Sotades (; 3rd century BC) was an Ancient Greek poet. Sotades was born in Maroneia, either the one in Thrace, or in Crete. He lived in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285–246 BC). The city was at that time a remarkabl ...

Maroneia Maroneia () is a village and a former municipality in Rhodope regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Maroneia-Sapes, of which it is a municipal unit. The munic ...

. Of his work, only the following three titles (along with associated fragments) have come down to us: ''Charinus'', ''The Ransomed Man'', and ''The Shut-In Women''.

Theophilus

The following nine titles, along with associated fragments, are all that survives of Theophilus' () work. *''The Citharode'' *''The Daughters of

Proetus In Greek mythology, Proetus (; Ancient Greek: Προῖτος ''Proitos'') may refer to the following personages: * Proetus, king of Argos and Tiryns, son of Abas and twin brother of Acrisius. *Proetus, a prince of Corinth as the son of Prince ...

'' *''The Flute-Lover'' *''The Men From Epidaurus'' *''

Neoptolemus In Greek mythology, Neoptolemus (; ), originally called Pyrrhus at birth (; ), was the son of the mythical warrior Achilles and the princess Deidamia, and the brother of Oneiros. He became the progenitor of the ruling dynasty of the Molossian ...

'' *''The Pancratiast'' *''The Physician'' *''Those Traveling Abroad'' *''Women From

Boeotia Boeotia ( ), sometimes Latinisation of names, Latinized as Boiotia or Beotia (; modern Greek, modern: ; ancient Greek, ancient: ), is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the modern regions of Greece, region of Central Greece (adm ...

Timotheus of Athens

The Suda lists four plays by Timotheus of Athens (): ''The Boxer'', ''The Changing Man'' (or ''The Shifting Man''), ''The Deposit'', and ''The Puppy''. Only one four-line quotation of Timotheus' work survives, a quotation from ''The Puppy'' by Athenaeus.Athenaeus, ''Deipnosophistae'', 6.243c

Xenarchus

The following eight titles, along with associated fragments, are all that survives of

Xenarchus Xenarchus (; 1st century BC) of Seleucia in Cilicia, was a Greek Peripatetic philosopher and grammarian. Xenarchus left home early, and devoted himself to the profession of teaching, first at Alexandria, afterwards at Athens, and last at Rome, ...

' work. *''Boutalion'' *''The Pentathlete'' *''Porphyra'' (possibly written by

Timocles Timocles (Ancient Greek: Τιμοκλῆς, ) was one of the last Athenian comic poets of the Middle Comedy, although Pollux listed him among the writers of New Comedy. He is known to have won first prize at the Lenaea once, between 330 and 320 ...

) *''Priapus'' *''The Scythians'' *''Sleep'' *''The Soldier'' *''The Twins''

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