Nichomachus

{{Short description|Ancient Greek playwright}}

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Nichomachus ({{langx|grc|Νιχόμαχος}} {{Transliteration|grc|Nikhómakhos}}) was a playwright who lived in Athens in the 5th century BC. He was a younger contemporary of Sophocles.{{cite book|title=Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition|editor=Goldhill, S. |editor2=Hall, E.|author=Burian, P.|chapter=Inconclusive Conclusion: the Ending(s) of Oedipus Tyrannus|page=100|year=2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0521887854}} Only the following titles and associated fragments of Nichomachus's plays have survived: Alcmaeon, Aletides, Alexander, Geryones, Eriphyle, Mysians, Neoptolemus, Polyxena, Teucer, and Tyndareos. He also wrote a play titled Oedipus.