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Anecdotes (Chreiai) and comedies

Known · Attestedin Alexandria?Conjecturedvery likely class

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I · The entry, in his form

In the table of Comedy

Conjecturedvery likely class

Machon of Corinth or Sicyon

Anecdotes (Chreiai) and comedies

Opening words not preserved.

Length: not counted

Above, his entry form, filled from what we know. Below, ours.

II · Does it survive? Where to read it

Survives in fragments

About 460 lines of the Chreiai are preserved in Athenaeus book 13.

Was it in Alexandria?

Known · Attested

Written in Alexandria.

On the table: written in Alexandria; no evidence it was in the Library.

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III · In the show

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IV · Sources and the living entry

Ancient references
  • Athenaeus 6.241f; 13.577d-583d
Modern scholarship
  • A. S. F. Gow, Machon: The Fragments (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965).

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ANECDOTES (CHREIAI) AND COMEDIES