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PHILEMON (c. 361263 B.C.)

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 375 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PHILEMON (c. 361263 B.C.) , Greek poet of the New Comedy, was born at
Soli
  in Cilicia, or at Syracuse. He settled at Athens early in life, and his first play was produced in 330. He was a contemporary and rival of Menander, whom he frequently vanquished in poetical contests. Posterity reversed the verdict and attributed Philemon's successes to unfair influence. He made a journey to the
east
 , and resided at the court of
Ptolemy
 , king of Egypt, for some time. Plutarch (De Cohibenda Ira, 9) relates that on his journey he was driven by a
storm
  to Cyrene, and fell into the hands of its king Magas, whom he had formerly satirized. Magas treated him with contempt, and finally dismissed him with a present of toys. Various accounts of his death are given; a violent outburst of laughter, excess of joy at a dramatic victory, or a peaceful end while engaged in composing his last
work
  (
Apuleius
 , Florida, 16; Lucian, Macrob. 25; Plutarch, An Seni, p. 725). Of the ninety-seven plays which he is said to have composed, the titles of fifty-seven and considerable fragments have been preserved. Some of these may have been the
work
  of his son, the younger Philemon, who is said to have composed fifty-four comedies. The Merchant and The Treasure of Philemon were the originals respectively of the Mercator and Trinummus of Plautus. The fragments preserved by Stobaeus, Athenaeus and other writers contain much wit and good sense. Quintilian (Instil. x. 1, 72)
assigned the second place among the poets of the New Comedy christl. Behandlung sozialer Fragen (1896), as well as in Dr A. H. to Philemon, and
Apuleius
 , who had a high
opinion
  of him, has
drawn
  a comparison between him and Menander.
See A.
Meineke
 , Menandri et Philemonis reliquiae (1823, including Bentley's emendations); T. Kock, Comicorum graecorum fragmenta, vol. iii. (1884).


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