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Archippus

Late 5th-century BC Athenian poet of Old Comedy

SaintClassical AthensPre-congregation

Feast: 20 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
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Died
401 BC
Beatified
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Canonised
By tradition
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Who they were

Archippus (; Ancient Greek: Ἅρχιππος; fl. late 5th century BC) was an Athenian poet of the Old Comedy. His most famous play was the Fishes, in which he satirized the fondness of the Athenian epicures for fish. The Alexandrian critics attributed to him the authorship of four plays previously assigned to Aristophanes (Dionysus Shipwrecked, Islands, Niobos, and Poetry). Archippus was ridiculed by his contemporaries for his fondness for playing upon words.

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