Amphis (
Greek: Ἄμφις) was an
Athenian comic poet of uncertain origin from approximately the 4th century BC.
Pollux[1] seems to refer to Amphis as a Middle Comedy poet, and Amphis' own repeated references to the philosopher
Plato[2] place him in the early to mid-4th century BC. His name is not
Athenian, and he was probably from the island of
Andros (thus Kirchner).
Surviving titles and fragments
49 fragments of his comedies survive, along with the following 28 titles.
The standard edition of the fragments and testimonia is in
Rudolf Kassel and
Colin François Lloyd Austin's Poetae Comici Graeci Vol. II. The eight-volume Poetae Comici Graeci produced from 1983 to 2001 replaces the outdated collections Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum by
August Meineke (1839-1857), Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta by
Theodor Kock (1880-1888) and Comicorum Graecorum Fragmenta by
Georg Kaibel (1899).