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"In the time of Xenarchus immorality with married women was particularly universal. Athenaeus XIII. p. 569. "


"... his comedy The Pentathlete, produced sometime in the middle or latter part of the fourth century B.C., Xenarchus made this point memorably (fr. 4): Terrible, terrible, and utterly intolerable, are the practices of the young men in our city—here, ..." --One Hundred Years of Homosexuality () by David M Halperin


"For here there are very pretty lasses at the brothels, whom the boys may see basking in the sun, their breasts uncovered, stripped for action and posted in battleline; of these one may select the girl that pleases his fancy, thin or fat, tubby or tall or squat, young, old, middle-aged, over-ripe, and not be obliged to set up a ladder and climb in secretly, nor crawl in through the smoke-hole below the roof, nor be trickily carried in under a heap of straw. Not at all! For the girls themselves use force and pull them in, dubbing those who are old, Daddy, and those who are younger, Big Boy. And any one of these may be visited fearlessly, cheaply, by day, at evening, in any manner desired; but the married women you either cannot see, or if seen, you cannot see them plainly, but always in a state of tremor and fright."[1], Charles Burton Gulick translation of Deipnosophistae

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Xenarchus (Ancient Greek: Ξέναρχος) was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy. None of his plays have survived, but Athenaeus preserves several quotations from his plays in the Deipnosophistae.

Surviving titles and fragments

The following eight titles, along with associated fragments, of Xenarhus' work have survived:

  • Boucolion
  • The Pentathlete
  • Porphyra
  • Priapus
  • Scythians
  • Sleep
  • The Soldier
  • Twins




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