Magnes (comic poet)
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Magnes (Greek: Μάγνης) an Athenian comic poet of the 5th century BC,contemporary of Chionides.Magnes along with Chionides are the earliest comic poets of whom we find any victories recorded in Dionysia.
Titles of his Comedies:
- Βαρβίτιδες Barbitides Guitarists of Barbiton
- Βάτραχοι Batrachoi Frogs
- Γαλεομυομαχία Galeomyomachia Battle of Cats and Mice
- Διόνυσος Dionysos
- Λυδοί Lydoi
- Ὄρνιθες Ornithes Birds
- Πιτακίς ή Πυτακίδης Pitakis or Pytakidis (related to Pita,Pytia or Pittakion,Wax tablet)
- Ποάστρια Poastria female farm-worker (from Poa)
- Ψῆνες Psenes Fig wasps
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