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MAGNES (c. 46o B.C.)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 319 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAGNES (c. 46o B.C.) , Athenian writer of the Old See also:Comedy, a native of the deme of Icaria in See also:Attica. His See also:death is alluded to by See also:Aristophanes (See also:Equites, 518—523, which was brought out in 424 B.c.), who states that in his old See also:age Magnes had lost the popularity which he had formerly enjoyed. The few titles of his plays that remain, such as the Frogs, the Birds, the See also:Gall flies, indicate that he anticipated Aristophanes in introducing See also:grotesque costumes for the See also:chorus. See T. See also:Kock, Comicorum atticorum fragmenta, i. (188o); G. H. See also:Bode, Geschichte der hellenischen Dichtkunst, iii. pt. 2 (1840).

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