Machon

Machon

:"For information about the program in Israel, see Machon L'Madrichei Chutz La'Aretz":"For information about the Jewish High school see Machon AcademyMachon (fl. 3rd century BC) was a playwright of the New Comedy.

He was born in Corinth or Sicyon, and lived in Alexandria. Two fragments of his work 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.

References

* A. S. F. Gow, "Machon: The Fragments" (Cambridge, 1965) hardback ISBN 0-521-05631-4, paperback ISBN 0-521-60929-1 [http://booktrade.cambridge.org/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521609291 info online]
* Rudolf Kassel and Colin Austin, Poetae Comici Graeci (for the comic fragments)


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