Anaxilas (Ἀναξίλας), also called Anaxilas Comicus, (fl. 340 BC)[1] was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy period. Based on his name, he has been presumed of Doric origin.[2] He was, along with several other Middle Comedy poets (e.g. Antiphanes, Anaxandrides, Amphis, Alexis, Epicrates, Eubulides, Sophilus, and Dionysius of Sinope, all of apparently non-Attic origin) part of the increasing influence of non-Attic poets following the fifth century BC.[3]

He was one of several comic poets mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius, as having "ridiculed" Plato.[4]

Surviving Titles and Fragments

Titles for twenty one of his plays are known, but only fragments of his works remain.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ Arnold, p. 221.
  2. ^ Edmonds, pp. 332–333 n. b; Csapo, p. 218 n. 83.
  3. ^ Csapo, p. 218.
  4. ^ Diogenes Laërtius, 3.26, 28.
  5. ^ Edmonds, pp. 332–348.

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