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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 133 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTIPHANES , the most important writer of the See also:

Middle See also:Attic See also:comedy with the exception of See also:Alexis, lived from about 408 to 334 B.C. He was apparently a foreigner who settled in See also:Athens, where he began to write about 387. He was extremely prolific: more than 200 of the 365 (or 260) comedies attributed to him are known to us from the titles and considerable fragments preserved in See also:Athenaeus. They chiefly See also:deal with matters connected with the table, but contain many striking sentiments. Fragments in See also:Koch, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta, ii. (i884); see also See also:Clinton, Philological Museum, i. (1832); See also:Meineke, Historia Critica Comicorum Graecorum (1839).

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