title: Xenarchus (comic poet)
text: # Xenarchus (comic poet)
  
  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 lived on:
  
  * Boucolion
  * The Pentathlete
  * Porphyra
  * Priapus
  * Scythians
  * Sleep
  * The Soldier
  * Twins
  