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Machon

Machon ( Ancient Greek: Μάχων, fl. 3rd century BC) was a playwright of the New Comedy.

He was born in Corinth or Sicyon, and lived in Alexandria. It is said that he taught the grammarian Aristophanes of Byzantium. Two fragments from two of his plays, Agnoia (Ignorance) and Epistole (The Letter), survive, along with 462 verses from a book of anecdotes about the words and deeds of notorious Athenians, preserved in the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus. Dioscorides wrote an epitaph for Machon that has also survived.

Machon (disambiguation)

Machon was a Greek playwright of the 3rd century BC.

Machon may also refer to:

People
  • Annie Machon (born 1968), British MI5 intelligence officer and whistle-blower
  • Francisco Machón Vilanova , Salvadorean novelist
  • Franz Machon (1918after 1945), German submariner
  • James Machon (1848after 1864), English-born sailor who served in the U.S. Navy and was awarded the Medal of Honor
  • James Machon (skier) ((born 1990), British freestyle skier
  • Martín Machón (born 1973), Guatemalan footballer
  • Pablo Machón (active from 2006), Spanish activist for free software
Other
  • Bais Yaakov Machon Academy (AKA Bais Yaakov Machon), a former high school in New York City for Jewish girls
  • Maarava Machon Rubin, an Orthodox yeshiva high school located in the town of Matityahu, Israel
  • Machon, a level of Heaven
  • Machon Ayalon, a former underground bullet factory located in Rehovot, Israel
  • Machon Chana, a private religious college for Jewish women affiliated with the Chabad Hasidic movement located in Brooklyn, New York
  • Machon Gold, an Orthodox Jewish girl's seminary in Jerusalem, Israel 19582008
  • Machon L'Madrichei Chutz La'Aretz, a young leadership program in Israel for high school graduates from all over the world, founded in 1946
  • Machon Le Madrichim (AKA Machon L'Madrichei Chutz La'Aretz)
  • Machon Meir, a religious Zionist outreach organization and yeshiva located in Jerusalem, Israel
  • Machon Shlomo, an Orthodox yeshiva for men located in Jerusalem, Israel
  • Machon Yaakov, a baal teshuva yeshiva for men located in Jerusalem, Israel