Anaxilas (Ἀναξίλας), also called Anaxilas Comicus, (fl. 340 BC)[1] was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy period. Based on his name, he has been presumed of Doric origin.[2] He was, along with several other Middle Comedy poets (e.g. Antiphanes, Anaxandrides, Amphis, Alexis, Epicrates, Eubulides, Sophilus, and Dionysius of Sinope, all of apparently non-Attic origin) part of the increasing influence of non-Attic poets following the fifth century BC.[3]

He was one of several comic poets mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius, as having "ridiculed" Plato.[4]

Surviving Titles and Fragments

Titles for twenty one of his plays are known, but only fragments of his works remain.[5]

Notes

References

• Arnold, Sir Edwin, The Poets of Greece, London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1869.
• Csapo, Eric, Hans Rupprecht Goette, J. Richard Green, Peter Wilson, Greek Theatre in the Fourth Century BC, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2014.
• Edmonds, The Fragments of "Attic Comedy" After Meineke, Bergk, and Kock: Augm., Newly Ed. with Their Contexts, Annot., and Completely Transl. Into English Verse. Old comedy, Brill Archive, 1959.
• Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). "Anaxilas" .

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