Xenarchus (comic poet) explained

Xenarchus (Ancient Greek: Ξέναρχος) was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy.^[1] None of his plays have survived, but Athenaeus preserves several quotations from his plays in the Deipnosophistae.^[2]

Surviving titles and fragments

The following eight titles, along with associated fragments, of Xenarhus' work have lived on:

• Boucolion
• The Pentathlete
• Porphyra
• Priapus
• Scythians
• Sleep
• The Soldier
• Twins

Notes and References

1. Suda ξ 21
2. Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 2.63F