Anaxilas (comic poet)
4th century BC Athenian poet of Middle Comedy
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Anaxilas (Ἀναξίλας), also called Anaxilas Comicus, (fl. 340 BC)[1] was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy period. Based on his name, he has been presumed of Doric origin.[2] He was, along with several other Middle Comedy poets (e.g. Antiphanes, Anaxandrides, Amphis, Alexis, Epicrates, Eubulides, Sophilus, and Dionysius of Sinope, all of apparently non-Attic origin) part of the increasing influence of non-Attic poets following the fifth century BC.[3]
He was one of several comic poets mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius, as having "ridiculed" Plato.[4]
Surviving titles and fragments
Titles for twenty one of his plays are known, but only fragments of his works remain.[5]
- The Rustic Man
- Exchange
- The Pipe-Player
- Botrylion
- Glaucus
- Manliness
- Thrasyleon
- Calypso
- Circe
- Cyclops
- Lyremakers (or possibly Perfume-makers)
- Cooks
- The Recluse
- Neottis
- Nereus
- Bird-Keepers
- Wealthy Men (or possibly Wealthy Women)
- Hyacinthus, or Hyacinthus the Pimp
- Graces
- The Goldsmith
- Seasons
