Xenarchus (comic poet)

{{short description|Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy}}

Xenarchus (Ancient Greek: Ξέναρχος) was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy.Suda ξ 21 None of his plays have survived, but Athenaeus preserves several quotations from his plays in the Deipnosophistae.Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 2.63F

Surviving titles and fragments

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

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

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