Machon
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Machon (fl. 3rd century BC) was a playwright of the New Comedy.
He was born in Corinth or Sicyon, and lived in Alexandria. Two fragments of his work survive, along with 462 verses of a book of anecdotes of the words and deeds of notorious Athenians, preserved in the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus. Dioscorides wrote an epitaph for Machon that has also survived.
[edit] References
- A. S. F. Gow, Machon: The Fragments (Cambridge, 1965) hardback ISBN 0-521-05631-4, paperback ISBN 0-521-60929-1
- Rudolf Kassel and Colin Austin, Poetae Comici Graeci (for the comic fragments)
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