{{Short description|4th century BCE Greek poet}} {{about|the 4th-century BCE playwright|the 3rd-century CE Gnostic|Axionicus of Antioch}} '''Axionicus''' ({{langx|grc|Ἀξιόνικος}}) was an Athenian poet of the Middle Comedy period of Ancient Greek comedy. He lived around the middle of the 4th century BCE.<ref name="nlm">{{cite book | last =Scharffenberger | first =Elizabeth | editor-last1=Marshall | editor-first1=C. W. | editor-last2=Kovacs | editor-first2=George | title =No Laughing Matter: Studies in Athenian Comedy | chapter=Axionicus, The Euripides Fan | publisher =Bloomsbury Publishing | date =2013 | pages =159-173 | language =English | url =https://www.google.com/books/edition/No_Laughing_Matter/GgxTDwAAQBAJ | isbn = 9781472503046 | accessdate=2025-02-02}}</ref><ref>Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, ''Die attische Mittlere Komödie''</ref>
Some fragments of the following plays have been preserved by Athenaeus:<ref>Athenaeus, ''Deipnosophistae'' 4.175b</ref> * ''The Etruscan'' (Τυρρηνός or Τυρρηνικός) * ''The Euripides Fan'' (Φιλευριπίδης) * ''Philinna '' (Φίλιννα) * ''The Chalcidean'' (Χαλκιδικός)
''The Euripides Fan'' was a play that dealt with fans' obsessive devotion to the plays of the late Euripides as a kind of mental disorder.<ref>{{cite book | last =Farmer | first =Matthew C. | title =Tragedy on the Comic Stage | publisher =Oxford University Press | date =2017 | pages =117 | language =English | url =https://www.google.com/books/edition/Tragedy_on_the_Comic_Stage/9Aw1DQAAQBAJ | isbn = | accessdate=2025-02-02}}</ref>
While he has historically been considered an Athenian, modern scholars question whether he was actually an Athenian citizen, though we know he was certainly active in Athens at least.<ref name="nlm"/>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Axionicus}} Category:Ancient Athenian dramatists and playwrights Category:Middle Comic poets Category:4th-century BC Greek poets