Platonius
Πλατώνιος
(Πλατώνιος), a grammarian.
Works
Περὶ διαφορᾶς κωμωδιῶν
All that we know of him is that a treatise bearing his name is generally prefixed to the editions of Aristophanes. It is entitled Περὶ διαφορᾶς κωμωδιῶν. The subject is the difference between the characteristics of the old, the middle, and the new comedy, especially the two first, and the causes of the various points of difference. The remarks are brief, but judicious.
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.