The New International Encyclopædia/Antiphanes

ANTIPH′ANES (Gk. Ἀντιφάνης). A Greek comic poet of the fourth century B.C. He was one of the chief representatives of the Middle Comedy. Many fragments of his works—which numbered, according to some estimates, 365, and to others 260—are preserved. He is praised by Athenæus for his polished diction. Consult Meineke, Poetarum Comicorum Græcorum Fragmenta, Volume III. (Berlin, 1839–57).