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ANTIPHANES , the most important writer of the See also:Middle See also:Attic See also:comedy with the exception of See also:Alexis, lived from about 408 to 334 B.C . He was apparently a foreigner who settled in See also: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 See also:Athenaeus . They chiefly See also:deal with matters connected with the table, but contain many striking sentiments . Fragments in See also:Koch, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta, ii . (i884); see also See also:Clinton, Philological Museum, i . (1832); See also:Meineke, Historia Critica Comicorum Graecorum (1839) . |
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