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{{Short description|3rd century BC Greek New Comedy playwright}}
{{about|the Greek playwright||}}
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'''Machon''' ([[Ancient Greek]]: Μάχων, fl. 3rd century BC) was a [[playwright]] of the [[New Comedy]].

He was born in [[Ancient Corinth|Corinth]] or [[Sicyon]], and lived in [[Alexandria]]. It is said that he taught the grammarian [[Aristophanes of Byzantium]]. Two fragments from two of his plays, ''Agnoia'' (Ignorance) and ''Epistole'' (The Letter), survive, along with 462 verses from a book of anecdotes about the words and deeds of notorious [[Athens|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}}, [https://web.archive.org/web/20041117040144/http://booktrade.cambridge.org/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521609291 info online]
* Rudolf Kassel and Colin Austin, Poetae Comici Graeci, vol. V, pp.&nbsp;623–5 (the two comic fragments, XIX and XX in Gow)
* Harry Thurston Peck, ''Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities'' (1898).[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0062%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DM%3Aentry+group%3D1%3Aentry%3Dmachon-harpers Machon]
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[[Category:Ancient Corinthians]]
[[Category:Ancient Sicyonians]]
[[Category:Ptolemaic court]]
[[Category:New Comic poets]]
[[Category:3rd-century BC Greek people]]


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