Magnes (comic poet)
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Magnes was an Athenian comic poet
of the 5th century BC. Magnes and his contemporary Chionides
are the earliest comic poets for whom victories are recorded in the literary competition of the Dionysia
festival.
Titles of his comedies:
Ancient Greek comedy
Ancient Greek comedy was one of the final three principal dramatic forms in the theatre of classical Greece . Athenian comedy is conventionally divided into three periods, Old Comedy, Middle Comedy, and New Comedy...
of the 5th century BC. Magnes and his contemporary Chionides
Chionides
Chionides an Athenian comic poet of the 5th century BC, contemporary of Magnes .The Suda says that Chionides existed 8 years before Greco–Persian Wars, that is, 487 BC...
are the earliest comic poets for whom victories are recorded in the literary competition of the Dionysia
Dionysia
The Dionysia[p] was a large festival in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus, the central events of which were the theatrical performances of dramatic tragedies and, from 487 BC, comedies. It was the second-most important festival after the Panathenaia...
festival.
Titles of his comedies:
- Βαρβίτιδες (Barbitides), Guitarists of BarbitonBarbitonThe barbiton, or barbitos , is an ancient stringed instrument known from Greek and Roman classics related to the lyre...
- Βάτραχοι (Batrachoi), Frogs
- Γαλεομυομαχία (Galeomyomachia), Battle of Cats and Mice
- Διόνυσος (Dionysos), DionysusDionysusDionysus was the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy in Greek mythology. His name in Linear B tablets shows he was worshipped from c. 1500—1100 BC by Mycenean Greeks: other traces of Dionysian-type cult have been found in ancient Minoan Crete...
- Λυδοί (LydoiLydiansThe Lydians were the inhabitants of Lydia, a region in western Anatolia, who spoke the distinctive Lydian language, an Indo-European language of the Anatolian group....
), Lydians - Ὄρνιθες (Ornithes), Birds
- Πιτακίς ή Πυτακίδης (Pitakis or Pytakidis, related to PitaPitaPita or pitta is a round pocket bread widely consumed in many Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and Balkan cuisines. It is prevalent in Greece, the Balkans the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula and Turkey. The "pocket" in pita bread is created by steam, which puffs up the dough...
, PytiaPytiaPytia is curdled milk obtained from an animal's stomach, containing rennet.-References:*Arist.HA522b5, PA676a6, GA739b22, Nic.Al.68, 323.* A Greek-English Lexicon** by...
or Pittakion, Wax tabletWax tabletA wax tablet is a tablet made of wood and covered with a layer of wax, often linked loosely to a cover tablet, as a "double-leaved" diptych. It was used as a reusable and portable writing surface in Antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages...
) - Ποάστρια (Poastria), Female Farm-Worker (derived from PoaPoaPoa is a genus of about 500 species of grasses, native to the temperate regions of both hemispheres. Common names include meadow-grass , bluegrass , tussock , and speargrass. "Poa" is Greek for fodder...
) - Ψῆνες (Psenes), Fig waspsFig waspFig wasps are wasps of the family Agaonidae which pollinate figs or are otherwise associated with figs, a coevolutional relationship that has been developing for at least 80 million years...