Epigenes of Athens (Ancient Greek: Ἐπιγένης ὁ Ἀθηναῖος, c. 4th century BC) was an Athenian comic poet of the Middle Comedy.
Pollux indeed[1] speaks of him as neôn tis kômikôn, but the terms "middle" and "new," as Clinton remarks,[2] are not always very carefully applied.
[3] Epigenes himself, in a fragment of his play called The Little Tomb (Mnêmation)[4] speaks of Pixodarus, prince of Caria, as "the king's son"; and from this Meineke argues[5] that the comedy in question must have been written while Hecatomnus, the father of Pixodarus, was yet alive, and perhaps about 380 BC.
We find besides in Athenaeus,[6] that there was a doubt among the ancients whether the play called Disappearance of the Money (Argyrion Aphanismos) should be assigned to Epigenes or Antiphanes.
The Suda mentions two other plays written by Epigenes: Heroine and Revelry.