Epigenes of Athens (, c. 4th century BC) was an Athenian comic poet of the Middle Comedy.
Pollux indeedvii. 29 (cited by Elder) speaks of him as neôn tis kômikôn, but the terms "middle" and "new," as Clinton remarks,F. H. vol. ii. p. xlix. (cited by Elder) are not always very carefully applied.See Arist. Eth. Nic. iv. 8. § 6. (cited by Elder) Epigenes himself, in a fragment of his play called The Little Tomb (Mnêmation)ap. Ath. xi. p. 472, f. (cited by Elder) speaks of Pixodarus, prince of Caria, as "the king's son"; and from this Meineke arguesHist. Crit. Com. Graec. p. 354 (cited by Elder) that the comedy in question must have been written while Hecatomnus, the father of Pixodarus, was yet alive, and perhaps about 380 BC. We find besides in Athenaeus,ix. p. 409, d. (cited by Elder) that there was a doubt among the ancients whether the play called Disappearance of the Money (Argyrion Aphanismos) should be assigned to Epigenes or Antiphanes. These poets therefore must have been contemporaries. The Suda mentions two other plays written by Epigenes: Heroine and Revelry.Suda ε 2262
The fragments of the comedies of Epigenes have been collected by Meinekevol. iii. p. 537; comp. Poll. vii. 29; Ath. iii. p. 75, c., ix. p. 384, a., xi. pp. 469, c., 474, a;, 480, a., 486, c., 502, e. (cited by Elder) and Kock.Theodor Kock, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta, vol.2, p.416-419
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