Diphilus, of Sinope, poet of the new Attic comedy and contemporary of Menander (342-291 BC). Most of his plays were written and acted at Athens, but he led a wandering life, and died at Smyrna. Sinope was an ancient city on the Black Sea, in the region of Galatia, modern-day Sinop, Turkey. ... For the Indo-Greek king (160–135 BC) see Menander the Just. ... Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 390s BC - 380s BC - 370s BC - 360s BC - 350s BC - 340s BC _ 330s BC - 320s BC - 310s BC - 300s BC - 290s BC 347 BC 346 BC 345 BC 344 BC 343 BC 342 BC 341 BC 340 BC... Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC Decades: 340s BC 330s BC 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC 260s BC 250s BC 240s BC 296 BC 295 BC 294 BC 293 BC 292 BC 291 BC 290 BC 289 BC 288... The Acropolis in central Athens, one of the most important landmarks in world history. ... Shows the Location of the Province Ä°zmir Izmir from space, June 1996 Izmir (Turkish spelling Ä°zmir, contraction of its former name Smyrna), the second-largest port (after Ä°stanbul) and the third most populous city (2,409,000 in 2000) of Turkey, is located on the Aegean Sea near the Gulf...

He was on intimate terms with the famous courtesan Gnathaena (Athenaeus xiii. pp. 579, 583). He is said to have written 100 comedies, the titles of fifty of which are preserved. He sometimes acted himself. To judge from the imitations of Plautus. (Casina from the KXflpo€9z€voL, Asinaria from the ‘Ova’yós, Rudens from some other play), he was very skilful in the construction of his plots. Terence also tells us that he introduced into the Adelphi (ii. I) a scene from the ~iwcL7roOv1~1a~ovre1, which had been omitted by Plautus in his adaptation (Commorienles) of the same play. Athenaeus (ca. ... Titus Maccius Plautus was a comic playwright of the Roman Republic. ... Publius Terentius Afer, better known as Terence, was a comic playwright of the Roman Republic. ...

The style of Diphilus was simple and natural, and his language on the whole good Attic; he paid great attention to vérsification, and was supposed to have invented a peculiar kind of metre. The ancients were undecided whether to class him among the writers of the New or Middle comedy. In his fondness for mythological subjects (Hercules, Theseus) and his introduction on the stage (by a bold anachronism) of the poets Archilochus and Hipponax as rivals of Sappho, he approximates to the spirit of the latter. Hercules and Cacus, by Baccio Bandinelli, 1525 - 1534. ... Theseus (Θησευς) was a legendary king of Athens, son of Aegeus (or of Poseidon). ... Archilochus (or Archilochos) (ca. ... Hipponax of Ephesus was a Greek iambic poet. ... Ancient Greek bust of Sappho the Eresian. ...

Fragments in H Koch, Comicorum Atticorum fragmenta, ii.; see J Denis, La Comédie grecque (1886), ii. p. 414; RW Bond in Classical Review (Feb. 1910, with trans. of Emporos fragm.).

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