Machon

Machon (fl. 3rd century BC) was a playwright of the New Comedy.

He was born in Corinth or Sicyon, and lived in Alexandria. Two fragments survive, along with 462 verses of a book of anecdotes of the words and deeds of notorious Athenians, preserved in the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus. Dioscorides wrote an epitaph for Machon that has also survived.

Reference

• A. S. F. Gow, Machon: The Fragments (Cambridge, 1965) hardback ISBN 0521056314, paperback ISBN 0521609291 info online (http://booktrade.cambridge.org/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521609291)

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