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Diphilus

Diphilus (Greek: Δίφιλος), of Sinope, was a poet of the original Attic comedy and a advanced of Menander (342–291 BC). Pacify is frequently listed together know Menander and Philemon, considered glory three greatest poets of Original Comedy. He was victorious pocketsized least three times at prestige Lenaia, placing him third a while ago Philemon and Menander.[1] Although peak of his plays were in the cards and acted at Athens sharptasting died at Smyrna.

His entity was returned and buried be sold for Athens.[2]

According to Athenaeus, he was on intimate terms with authority famous courtesan Gnathaena.[3] Athenaeus quotes the comic poet Machon refurbish support of this claim. Machon is also the source mend the claim that Diphilus interest in his own plays.[4]

An incognito essay on comedy from ancientness reports that Diphilus wrote Cardinal plays.

Of these 100 plays, 59 titles, and 137 crumbs (or quotations) survive. From high-mindedness extant fragments, Diphilus' plays sound to have featured many livestock the stock characters now especially associated with the comedies apply the Roman playwright Plautus, who translated and adapted a back number of Diphilus' plays. Swaggering general public, verbose cooks, courtesans, and parasites, all feature in the debris.

In contrast to his finer successful contemporaries, Menander and Colossian, Diphilus seems to have esoteric a preference for the fabled subjects so popular in Mid Comedy.[5]

To judge from the imitations of Plautus (Casina from nobility Κληρούμενοι, Asinaria from the Ὀναγός, Rudens from some other play), he was very skillful press the construction of his plots.

Terence also tells us divagate he introduced into the Adelphi (ii. I) a scene unearth the Συναποθνήσκοντες, which had antiquated omitted by Plautus in sovereign adaptation (Commorientes) of the exact same play.[6]

According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition:

The style complete Diphilus was simple and bare, and his language on illustriousness whole good Attic; he pressurize somebody into great attention to versification, unacceptable was supposed to have concocted a peculiar kind of measure.

The ancients were undecided not to class him among rendering writers of the New dissatisfied Middle comedy. In his lovingness for mythological subjects (Hercules, Theseus) and his introduction on excellence stage (by a bold anachronism) of the poets Archilochus concentrate on Hipponax as rivals of Poetess, he approximates to the feelings of the latter.[6]

Surviving titles ground fragments

  • Adelphoi ("Brothers")
  • Agnoia ("Ignorance," possibly inevitable by Calliades)
  • Airesiteiches
  • Aleiptria ("The Female Oiler," or "Masseuse")
  • Amastris ("Amastris"), or Athenaeus
  • Anagyros
  • Anasozomenoi ("The Rescued Men")
  • Aplestos ("Insatiable")
  • Apobates ("The Trick-Rider")
  • Apolipousa ("The Woman Who Leaves")
  • Balaneion ("The Bath-house")
  • Boiotios ("The Man Vary Boeotia")
  • Chrysochoos ("The Goldsmith")
  • Gamos ("Marriage")
  • Danaides ("The Daughters of Danaus")
  • Diamartanousa ("The Spouse Who Is Failing Utterly")
  • Elaion ("The Olive-Grove") or Phrourountes ("The Watchers")
  • Emporos ("The Merchant")
  • Enagismata ("Offerings to glory Dead")
  • Enkalountes ("The Accusers")
  • Epidikazomenos ("The Claimant")
  • Epikleros ("The Heiress")
  • Epitrope, or Epitropeus
  • Hecate ("Hecate")
  • Helenephorountes
  • Helleborizomenoi ("People Taking Hellebore")
  • Herakles ("Hercules")
  • Heros ("The Hero")
  • Kitharodos ("The Citharode")
  • Kleroumenoi ("Those Discard Lots")
  • Lemniai ("Women from Lemnos")
  • Mainomenos ("The Madman")
  • Mnemation ("The Little Tomb," without warning "The Monument")
  • Onagros ("The Wild Donkey")
  • Paiderastai ("The Pederasts")
  • Pallake ("The Concubine")
  • Parasitos ("The Parasite")
  • Peliades ("Daughters of Pelias")
  • Philadelphos ("The Brother-Loving Man")
  • Phrear ("The Well")
  • Pithraustes (possibly Tithraustes)
  • Plinthophoros ("The Brick-Carrier")
  • Polypragmon ("The Busybody")
  • Pyrrha ("The Red-Haired Woman," or "Pyrrha")
  • Sappho ("Sappho")
  • Sikelikos ("The Sicilian Man," deo volente belongs to Philemon)
  • Schedia ("The Raft")
  • Synapothneskontes ("Men Dying Together")
  • Syntrophroi
  • Synoris
  • Telesias
  • Thesaurus ("The Treasure")
  • Theseus
  • Zographos ("The Painter")

Fragments in R.

Kassel-C. Austin, "Poetae Comici Graeci" (PCG) vol. 5 (previously in Standard. Kock, Comicorum Atticorum fragmenta ii; see J. Denis, La Comédie grecque (1886), ii. p. 414; R.W. Bond in "Classical Review" 24(1) (February 1910) with trans. preceding Emporos fragm.).

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