Nicophon ( el, , also Nicophron, el, ), the son of a certain Theron, was an

Athenian Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates a ...

comic

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, a contemporary of

Aristophanes Aristophanes (; grc, Ἀριστοφάνης, ; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion ( la, Cydathenaeum), was a comic playwright or comedy-writer of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. Eleven of his ...

in his later years.

Athenaeus Athenaeus of Naucratis (; grc, Ἀθήναιος ὁ Nαυκρατίτης or Nαυκράτιος, ''Athēnaios Naukratitēs'' or ''Naukratios''; la, Athenaeus Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of ...

states that he belonged to

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, but it is more likely that he belonged to

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). Athenian comedy is conventionally divided into three periods: Old Comedy, Middle Comedy, an ...

. We learn from the argument of the '' Plutus'' of Aristophanes that he exhibited one of his plays, called Ἄδωνις ''Adonis'', in 388 BC, the date Aristophanes exhibited his '' Plutus''.

Plays

*Ἄδωνις, ''Adonis'' *Ἀφροδίτης γοναί, ''Origins of

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'' *Ἐξ Ἅδου ἀνιὼν, ''Coming Up from

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'' *Πανδώρα, '' Pandora'' *Ἐγχειρογαστορες, ''Living by their Hands''Encheirogastores,Cherogastore
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s'' 27 lines of his plays have survived.

References

*Meineke, Frag. Poet. Comic, vol. i. p. 256, &c. vol. ii. p. 848, &c. ; *Clinton, F. II. vol. ii. p. 101.) Suidasbr>Suidasbr>Suda.html" ;"title=". M.G.

Notes

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Deipnosophists by Charles Duke Yonge, on the word ''mystron'' (spoon), cited by Hippolochus (writer), Hippolochus and Nicopho

Ancient Athenian dramatists and playwrights Writers of lost works 4th-century BC Athenians Old Comic poets {{AncientGreece-stub