---
name: Laon the Comic Poet
name_greek: Λάων ὁ κωμικός
eul_aid: gmm
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/authors/laon-the-comic-poet-gmm"
period: Classical
dialect: Koine
works_count: 2
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Laon the Comic Poet

*Λάων ὁ κωμικός*

**eul_aid:** `gmm` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/authors/laon-the-comic-poet-gmm)

Laon was a Greek comic poet of the 4th or 3rd century BCE. Two surviving works are preserved. Free to read and download from the Greek library archive.

## Works

- [On Boeotia and Character](https://eulogikon.org/works/laon-comic-boeotia-character-gmm-aa) — *Ἀποσπάσματα* · `gmm-aa`
- [On Boeotia and Character](https://eulogikon.org/works/laon-comic-boeotia-character-gmm-ab) — *Ἀποσπάσματα* · `gmm-ab`

## License and provenance

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