The following people were all minor authors of Greek Middle Comedy. None of their works have survived intact, but later writers of Late Antiquity provide the titles of some of their plays as well as brief quotations.

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Diocles

The following six titles, along with associated fragments, are all that survives of Diocles' () work. The Suda states that some accounts claimed that Diocles invented a means of playing music by striking saucers and pottery vessels with a wooden stick.

Minor Middle Comedy Poets

The Bacchae

Bees

The Cyclopes

Dreams

Thalatta (name of a courtesan) Thyestes

Minor Middle Comedy Poets

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Ophelion

Kassel-Austin places Ophelion () in the Middle Comedy period. The Suda credits him with six plays: Callaeschrus, Centaur, Deucalion, Muses, Recluses, and Satyrs. Athenaeus cites his work four times.

Minor Middle Comedy Poets

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Sophilus

The Suda claims that Sophilus () was from either Sicyon or Thebes. The following nine titles, along with associated fragments, are all that survives of Sophilus' work.

Androcles

The Citharode

The Deposit

The Handbook

Marriage

The Phylarch

Those Running Together

The Woman From Delos

Tyndareos or Leda

Sotades of Athens

The Suda confuses this playwright with the iambic poet Sotades of Maroneia. Of his work, only the following three titles (along with associated fragments) have come down to us: Charinus, The Ransomed Man, and The Shut-In Women.

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Theophilus

The following nine titles, along with associated fragments, are all that survives of Theophilus' () work.

The Citharode

The Daughters of Proetus

The Flute-Lover

The Men From Epidaurus

Neoptolemus

The Pancratiast

The Physician

Those Traveling Abroad

Women From Boeotia

Timotheus of Athens

The Suda lists four plays by Timotheus of Athens (): The Boxer, The Changing Man (or The Shifting Man), The Deposit, and The Puppy. Only one four-line quotation of Timotheus' work survives, a quotation from The Puppy by Athenaeus.

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Xenarchus

The following eight titles, along with associated fragments, are all that survives of Xenarchus' work.

Boutalion

The Pentathlete

Porphyra (possibly written by Timocles) Priapus The Scythians Sleep The Soldier The Twins

References

Ancient Greek dramatists and playwrights

Ancient Greek poets

Middle Comic poets