Metagenes (Ancient Greek: Μεταγένης) was an Athenian comic poet of the Old Comedy, contemporary with Aristophanes, Phrynichus, and Plato.
[1] The Suda gives the following titles of his plays: Αὖραι, Μαμμάκυθος, Θουριοπέρσαι, Φιλοθύτης, Ὅμηρος ἢ Ἀσκηταί, some of which appear to be corrupt.
[2][3][4] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, Philip (1870).
In Smith, William (ed.).
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.