The following people were all minor authors of Greek Middle Comedy. None of their works have survived intact, but later writers of Late Antiquity provide the titles of some of their plays as well as brief quotations.
The following six titles, along with associated fragments, are all that survives of Diocles' (Greek: Διοκλῆς) work. The Suda states that some accounts claimed that Diocles invented a means of playing music by striking saucers and pottery vessels with a wooden stick.[1]
The following five titles, along with associated fragments, are all that survives of Diodorus' (Greek: Διόδωρος) work.
Kassel-Austin places Ophelion (Greek: Ὠφελίων) in the Middle Comedy period.[3] The Suda credits him with six plays: Callaeschrus, Centaur, Deucalion, Muses, Recluses, and Satyrs.[4] Athenaeus cites his work four times.[5]
The following eight titles, along with associated fragments, are all that survives of Philiscus' (Greek: Φιλίσκος) work.
The following six titles, along with associated fragments, are all that survives of Polyzelus' (Greek: Πολύζηλος) work.[6]
The Suda claims that Sophilus (Greek: Σώφιλος) was from either SicyonorThebes.[7] The following nine titles, along with associated fragments, are all that survives of Sophilus' work.
The Suda confuses this playwright with the iambic poet SotadesofMaroneia.[8] Of his work, only the following three titles (along with associated fragments) have come down to us: Charinus, The Ransomed Man, and The Shut-In Women.
The following nine titles, along with associated fragments, are all that survives of Theophilus' (Greek: Θεόφιλος) work.[9]
The Suda lists four plays by Timotheus of Athens (Greek: Τιμόθεος ὁ Ἀθηναῖος): The Boxer, The Changing Man (orThe Shifting Man), The Deposit, and The Puppy.[10] Only one four-line quotation of Timotheus' work survives, a quotation from The Puppy by Athenaeus.[11]
The following eight titles, along with associated fragments, are all that survives of Xenarchus' work.