Axionicus

{{Short description|4th century BCE Greek poet}}

{{about|the 4th-century BCE playwright|the 3rd-century CE Gnostic|Axionicus of Antioch}}

Axionicus ({{langx|grc|Ἀξιόνικος}}) was an Athenian poet of the Middle Comedy period of Ancient Greek comedy. He lived around the middle of the 4th century BCE.{{cite book

| last =Scharffenberger

| first =Elizabeth

| editor-last1=Marshall

| editor-first1=C. W.

| editor-last2=Kovacs

| editor-first2=George

| title =No Laughing Matter: Studies in Athenian Comedy

| chapter=Axionicus, The Euripides Fan

| publisher =Bloomsbury Publishing

| date =2013

| pages =159-173

| language =English

| url =https://www.google.com/books/edition/No_Laughing_Matter/GgxTDwAAQBAJ

| isbn = 9781472503046

| accessdate=2025-02-02}}Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, Die attische Mittlere Komödie

Some fragments of the following plays have been preserved by Athenaeus:Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 4.175b

• The Etruscan (Τυρρηνός or Τυρρηνικός)
• The Euripides Fan (Φιλευριπίδης)
• Philinna (Φίλιννα)
• The Chalcidean (Χαλκιδικός)

The Euripides Fan was a play that dealt with fans' obsessive devotion to the plays of the late Euripides as a kind of mental disorder.{{cite book

| last =Farmer

| first =Matthew C.

| title =Tragedy on the Comic Stage

| publisher =Oxford University Press

| date =2017

| pages =117

| language =English

| url =https://www.google.com/books/edition/Tragedy_on_the_Comic_Stage/9Aw1DQAAQBAJ

| isbn =

| accessdate=2025-02-02}}

While he has historically been considered an Athenian, modern scholars question whether he was actually an Athenian citizen, though we know he was certainly active in Athens at least.