Lycophron (lived 4th century BC)

Greek poet and scholar, born at Chalcis in Euboea. He was commissioned by Ptolemy Philadelphus to arrange the works of the comic poets in the museum of the Library of Alexandria, and while thus engaged he wrote a substantial work on comedy. This has been lost, as have all his tragedies except the ‘Cassandra’, a learned but poetically futile piece.