Damoxenus
Δαμόξενος
(Δαμόξενος) was an Athenian comic poet of the new comedy, and perhaps partly of the middle.
Works
Comic plays
Two of his plays, entitled Εύντροφοι and Ἑαυτὸν πενθῶν, are mentioned by Athenaeus, who quotes a long passage from the former, and a few lines from the latter. Elsewhere he calls him, less correctly, Demoxenus.
Editions
The longer fragment was first published, with a Latin version, by Hugo Grotius, in his Excerpta ex Tragoedüs et Comoedüs Graecis, Par. 1626, 4to.
Further Information
Ath. i. p. 15b., iii. p. 101f., xi. p. 469a.; Suid. s.v. Eudoc. p. 131; Meineke, Hist. Crit. Com. Graec. i. p. 484, &c., iv. p. 529, &c., p. 843, &c.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.