The New International Encyclopædia/Chionides

CHIONIDES, kḯ-ŏn′ǐ-dēz (from Gk. Χιονίδης). A Greek comic poet, whose representations date from B.C. 487. He is called the earliest writer of the old Athenian comedy, in that he was the first to impart to it that spirit of censorious criticism, whether of morals, politics, or literary taste, which distinguished it down to the time of Artaphernes. The extant fragments of his works have been edited in Meineke, Fragmenta Comicorum Græcorum (Paris, 1839–57), and Kock, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta, Vol. I., 4–7 (Leipzig, 1880–84).