# Axionicus
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{{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](/source/Athens) poet of the [Middle Comedy](/source/Middle_Comedy) period of [Ancient Greek comedy](/source/Ancient_Greek_comedy). He lived around the middle of the 4th century BCE.[{{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}}][[Heinz-Günther Nesselrath](/source/Heinz-G%C3%BCnther_Nesselrath), ''Die attische Mittlere Komödie'']
Some fragments of the following plays have been preserved by [Athenaeus](/source/Athenaeus):[[Athenaeus](/source/Athenaeus), ''[Deipnosophistae](/source/Deipnosophistae)'' 4.175b]
* ''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](/source/Euripides) as a kind of [mental disorder](/source/mental_disorder).[{{cite book
| last =Farmer
| first =Matthew C.
| title =Tragedy on the Comic Stage
| publisher =[Oxford University Press](/source/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}}]
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.