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(Μεταγένης), an Athenian comic poet of the Old Comedy, contemporary with Aristophanes, Phrynichus, and Plato. (Schol. in Aristoph. Av. 1297.) Suidas gives the following titles of his plays :--Αὖραι, Μαμμάκυθος, Θουριοπέρσαι, Φιλοθύτης, Ὅμηρος ἢ Ἀσκηταί, some of which appear to be corrupt. (Meineke, Trag. Coin. Graec. vol. i. pp. 218-221, vol. ii. pp. 751-760; Bergk, Com. Att. Ant. Reliq. p. 421; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 470.) [P.S]
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artists.
1. The son of Chersiphron, and one of the architects of the temple of Artemis at Ephesus. [Chersiphron.]
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2. An Athenian architect in the time of Pericles, was engaged with Coroebus and Ictinus and Xenocles in the erection of the great temple at Eleusis. (Plut. Per. 13.) [P.S]