176 PEEDECESSOES OE CONTEMPOEAEIES OP AEISTOPHANES. 11. ALCiEUS, a writer of mythological Comedies. 12. EuNicuS (or ^Nicus), whose Comedies A7iteia or Antheia and The Cities are attributed to other writers ^ 13. Canthaeus, a contemporary of Plato the Comedian, to whom one of his plays is attributed. 14. DioCLES of Phlius, of the same age as Cantharus. 15. NicOCHAEES, son of Philonides, wrote mythical Comedies, and belonged to the Middle Comedy as well as to the Old. 16. NicoPHON, a younger contemporary of Aristophanes, but a poet of the mythical school. 17. Philyllius^, a careless poet, inclining to the style of the Middle Comedy. 18. PoLYZELUS, a poet of mythical Comedy. 19. Sannyeion, a contemporary of the later poets of the Old Comedy, by whom he is ridiculed. 20. Apollophanes, a contemporary of Strattis. 21. Epilycus, author of the (7omZ/5CM5. 22. EuTHYCLES, author of the Profligates and Atalanta, 23. Demeteius, wrote after the Peloponnesian war. 24. Cephisodoeus, author of the Amazons, Antilais, Tro- ^phonius and the Hog. 25. AuTOCEATES, author of the Tymjpanistce. 1 Meineke, Hist. Crit. Com. pp. ^50, 260. 2 Philyllius is said to have been the first to introduce torches on the stage (Schol. Aristoph. Plut. 1195); and it is remarkable that he used the word ava<pd^r}TOS as a synonym for d/xd6')]Tos ypafM/xdrwy [Antiatticista, p. S3).
