Anaxa'ndrides
（
Ἀναξανδρίδης), an Athenian comic poet of the middle comedy, was the son of Anaxander, a native of Cameirus in Rhodes.
Works
Comedies
He began to exhibit comedies in B. C. 376 (
Marm. Par. Ep. 34), and 29 years later he was present, and probably exhibited, at the Olympic games celebrated by Philip at Dium. Aristotle held him in high esteem. (
Rhet. 3.10-12;
Eth. Eud. 6.10;
Nicom. 7.10.)
He is said to have been the first poet who made love intrigues a prominent part of comedy.
He gained ten prizes, the whole number of his comedies being sixty-five. Though he is said to have destroyed several of his plays in anger at their rejection, we still have the titles of thirty-three.
Dithyrambic Poetry
Anaxandrides was also a dithyrambic poet, but we have no remains of his dithyrambs.
Further Information
Suidas, s.v.
Athen. 9.374; Meineke; Bode.)
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