Nausicrates
Ναυσικράτης
(Ναυσικράτης), a Greek comic poet, doubtfully placed by Clinton (F. H. vol. ii. p. xlv.) among the writers of the middle comedy. Meineke (Frag. Com. Graec. vol. i. p. 495) infers the same thing, from his tragicocomic style.
Works
Plays
Suidas (s. v.) attributes to him two plays, Ναυκλήροι and Περσίς. Athenaeus (ix. p. 399e.), when giving an extract from the play called Περσίς, calls him Naucrates; but this is clearly an error; or it may be a shortened form, similar to those adduced by Lobeck, in his edition of Aglaophamus (pp. 994, 996). From the fragments preserved by Athenaeus, consisting of twelve lines from the Ναυκλήροι and three from the Περσίς, we can infer nothing of the plot; but there is some humour in his inflated description of the mullet and the blue shark in the passages from the former play. These passages are most ingeniously dovetailed and amended by Meineke (vol. iv. p. 575, &c.).
Further Information
Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 471; Athen. l.c. vii. p. 296a. p. 325e. p. 330,b.
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.