Editing Machon (section)

{{Short description|3rd century BC Greek New Comedy playwright}}
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'''Machon''' ([[Ancient Greek]]: Μάχων, fl. 3rd century BC) was a [[playwright]] of the [[New Comedy]].

He was born in [[Corinth]] or [[Sicyon]], and lived in [[Alexandria]]. It is said that he taught the grammarian [[Aristophanes of Byzantium]]. Two fragments from two of his plays, ''Agnoia'' (Ignorance) and ''Epistole'' (The Letter), survive, along with 462 verses from a book of anecdotes about the words and deeds of notorious [[Athens|Athenians]], preserved in the ''[[Deipnosophistae]]'' of [[Athenaeus]].  [[Dioscorides]] wrote an [[epitaph]] for Machon that has also survived.