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Machon (Ancient Greek: Μάχων, fl. 3rd century BC) was a playwright of the New Comedy.

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Instance of
human
Gender
male
Place of birth
Corinth
Occupation
poet
Languages spoken
Ancient Greek
Movement
New Comedy
Residence
Alexandria
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writing language
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significant place
Sicyon
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Machon (Ancient Greek: Μάχων, fl. 3rd century BC) was a playwright of the New Comedy.

He was born in Corinth or Sicyon, and lived in Alexandria. It is said that he taught the grammarian Aristophanes of Byzantium. Two fragments from two of his plays, Agnoia (Ignorance) and Epistole (The Letter), survive, along with 462 verses from a book of anecdotes about the words and deeds of notorious Athenians, preserved in the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus. Dioscorides wrote an epitaph for Machon that has also survived.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Machon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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