Metagenes (poet)

Metagenes () was an Athenian comic poet of the Old Comedy, contemporary with Aristophanes, Phrynichus, and Plato.Scholiast on Aristophanes Av. 1297

The Suda records his father's name as Dylos, but modern scholars regard this reading as uncertain; one proposed emendation is Diyllos.Suda, Mu, 688

The Suda gives the following titles of his plays: Αὖραι (Breezes), Μαμμάκυθος (Blockhead), Θουριοπέρσαι (Thouriopersians), Φιλοθύτης (Sacrifice-lover), Ὅμηρος ἢ Ἀσκηταί (Homer or Athletes), some of which appear to be corrupt.August Meineke, Trag. Coin. Graec. vol. i. pp. 218-221, vol. ii. pp. 751-760Theodor Bergk, Com. Att. Ant. Reliq. p. 421Johann Albert Fabricius, Bibliotheca Graeca vol. ii. p. 470

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