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Headword:
Xenarchos
Adler number: xi,22
Translated headword: Xenarchos, Xenarchus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Comic [poet]. Among his plays are
Boukolion, as
Athenaeus says in
Deipnosophists [book] 2;[1] also
Purple-shell and
Scythians, as the same [writer says].[2] Also
Twin Boys and
Pentathlete and
Priapus,
Sleep,
Mercenary.[3]
Xenarchos, kômikos. tôn dramatôn autou esti Boukoliôn, [hôs] Athênaios phêsin en b# Deipnosophistôn: kai Porphura kai Skuthai, hôs ho autos. kai Didumoi kai Pentathlos kai Priapos, Hupnos, Stratiôtês.
Notes:
C4 BCE (Middle Comedy).
[1]
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 63F. (On
Athenaeus and the
Deipnosophists -- which in fact supplies all eight of these titles: see notes below -- see generally
alpha 731.)
[2]
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 225C, 319A, 367A, 418D, 431A. (In some of these passages the attribution of the first of these titles is hedged between Xenarchos and Timikles: see
tau 624.)
[3]
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 426B, 440E, 441E, 473F, 559A, 569A, 679E, 693B. (The correct title for
Pentathlete seems actually to be
Pentathlon.)
Kassell-Austin, Poetae Comici Graeci vol.7 pp.791-801.
OCD(3) p.1628, 'Xenarchus(2)', by W.G.Arnott.
Keywords: athletics; biography; comedy; daily life; military affairs; poetry; zoology
Translated by: James L. P. Butrica † on 16 February 2000@13:33:14.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified headword; added notes, bibliography, keywords; cosmetics) on 21 September 2000@09:35:30.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 5 April 2004@22:11:10.
David Whitehead (augmented note; cosmetics) on 6 April 2004@05:35:42.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; raised status) on 27 August 2007@11:22:40.
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