PHRYNICHUS (COMIC POET)

'Phrynichus' was a poet of the Old Attic comedy and a contemporary of Aristophanes. His first comedy was exhibited in 429 BC. He composed ten plays, of which the ''Solitary'' ('') was exhibited in 414 along with the ''Birds'' of Aristophanes and gained the third prize. The ''Muses'' carried off the second prize in 405, Aristophanes being first with the ''Frogs'', in which he accuses Phrynichus of employing vulgar tricks to raise a laugh, of plagiarism and bad versification, and of lowbrow politics.
The surviving fragments of his work may be found in Theodor Kock, ''Comicorum atticorum fragmenta'' (Teubner, 1880).

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