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Encyclopedia Britannica



DIPHILUS

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 290 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DIO-DRO
DIPHILUS , of Sinope, poet of the new Attic comedy and contemporary of Menander (342-291 B.C.). Most of his plays were written and acted at Athens, but he led a wandering
life
 , and died at Smyrna. He was on intimate terms with the famous courtesan Gnathaena (Athenaeus xiii. pp. 579, 583). He is said to have written too comedies, the titles of fifty of which are preserved. He sometimes acted himself. To judge from the imitations of
Plautus
 . (Casina from theKn77pouge/at, Asinaria from the 'Ovayos, 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 luvatro8vi7-aKOVTES, which had been omitted by
Plautus
  in his adaptation 1 (Commorientes) of the same play. The
style
  of Diphilus was simple and natural, and his language on the whole good Attic; he paid
great
  attention to versification, 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.
Fragments in H.
Koch
 , Comicorum Atticorum, fragments, ii.; see J. Denis, La Comedie grecque (1886), ii. p. 414; R. W. Bond in Classical
Review
  (Feb. 1910, with trans. of Emporos fragm.).


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