Identifier: greektheateritsd00flic (find matches)
Title: The Greek theater and its drama
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Flickinger, Roy C. (Roy Caston), 1876-1942
Subjects: Greek drama -- History and criticism Theater -- Greece
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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¹ Cf. Jacoby Das Marmor Parium, p. 13 V irpd))TwvlKapi4u)Vj evpbvroi Ziovjapiuvos, Kal q.6\ov iridrjirpuiTov i<rx<i5w(») &p(TLxo(%\ Kal oivov fie\T^pi\T-fis, (eTTj .... The exact date is not
determinable but is limited to a period of twenty years by other entries just before
and after this one. ² Figs. 12 and 13 are taken, by permission of the Council of the Hellenic Society,
from the Journal of Hellenic Studies, II (1881), PI. XIV, Ai and Bi; Fig. 14 from
Poppelreuter, op. cit., p. 8; and Figs. 15 and 16 from Robinson, Boston Museum
Catalogue of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Vases (1893), p. 136.
³ Cf. Capps, University of Chicago Decennial Publications, VI, 286, and American
Journal of Philology, XXVIII (1907), 186 f.
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FIG. 13
A COMUS UPON A BRITISH MUSEUM OENOCHOE
See page 38, n2.

INTRODUCTION 39
Before we can proceed further, it will be necessary to con-
sider the nature of ancient comedy. In the time of Hadrian
the history of literary comedy at Athens was divided into three
periods, called Old. Middle, and New Comedy, respectively.
Old Comedy came to a close shortly after the beginning of the
fourth century B.C. Politics and scurrilous attacks upon
contemporaneous personages made up the bulk of its subject-
matter. Living men, such as Pericles, Socrates, Euripides, and

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