ANTIPHANES  , the most important writer of the

Middle Attic comedy with the exception of Alexis, lived from about 408 to 334 B.C . He was apparently a foreigner who settled in Athens, where he began to write about 387 . He was extremely prolific: more than 200 of the 365 (or 260) comedies attributed to him are known to us from the titles and considerable fragments preserved in Athenaeus . They chiefly deal with matters connected with the table, but contain many striking sentiments . Fragments in Koch, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta, ii . (i884); see also Clinton, Philological Museum, i . (1832); Meineke, Historia Critica Comicorum Graecorum (1839) .