Ste'phanus
(
*Ste/fanos), literary.
1. An Athenian comic poet of the New Comedy, was probably the son of Antiphanes, some of whose plays he is said to have exhibited. (Anon.
de Com. p. xxx.; Suid,
s. v. Ἀντιφάνης.)
The other statement of Suidas (
s. v. Ἄλεξις), that he was the son of Alexis, seems to arise merely from a confusion of the names of Alexis and Antiphanes. All that remains of his works is a single fragment, quoted by Athenaeus (xi. p. 469a.), from his
Φιλολάκων, a play which was evidently intended to ridicule the imitators of Lacedaemonian manners. (Fabric.
Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 496; Meineke,
Frag. Com. Graec. vol. i. pp. 304, 376, 485, 486, vol. iv. p. 544.)