Carcinus (writer)
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This article is about the Greek tragedian. For the crab genus of the same name, see Carcinus.
Carcinus was an Ancient Greek tragedian, and was a member of a family including Xenocles (a father or uncle) and his grandfather Carcinus of Agrigentum. He received a prize for only one out of his one hundred and sixty plays, many of them composed at the court of Dionysius II of Syracuse. He and his sons were lampooned by Aristophanes at the end of The Wasps and in Peace.
All three of those sons became playwrights.
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