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Post-Menandrian Comic Poets: An Overview of the Evidence and a Checklist
Get accessBenjamin Millis is Research Associate at the University of Oxford.
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Published:16 December 2013
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Benjamin Millis
In the latter part of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first, work on theatrical antiquities and dramatic production of the Hellenistic and Roman periods proliferated. Scholars are now well informed about artistic representations of theatrical artifacts and dramatic production and about many aspects of acting and actors, professional organizations, and much else, reaching far into the Roman period.1 In contrast, modern scholarship on Greek comic poets who postdate Menander is virtually nonexistent.2 The fragments of this material have been gathered in the successive collections of Greek comic fragments, but little attention has been given to them.3 Relative neglect of later periods in favor of the extant authors Aristophanes and Menander would not be surprising; the lack of almost any scholarship on later comedy is. That the work of Aristophanes cannot necessarily be understood as emblematic of fifth-century comedy has long been recognized, and has led to attempts to contextualize his comedies by studying his contemporaries.4 Oddly, the same has been less true for Menander.5 Even for the middle of the fourth century, where there are no extant plays, much work has been done, and it is possible to discuss the comedy of the period in general terms.6
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