FrC 25.2 Diphilos frr. 59-85

Ioanna Karamanou

• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9783911065009
• eBook ISBN: 9783911065016
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism History & Theory
• Index: Literature

This volume forms the second part of the three-volume commentary on the fragments of Diphilus, who belongs to the prominent triad of the poets of New Comedy alongside Menander and Philemon. The present volume comprises the text and an English translation of the fragments of twenty-two plays of Diphilus, followed by a full-scale (philological, thematic, literary, interpretative, historical) commentary that also yields insight into the reception of Diphilan comedy in Roman theatre. This in-depth study of the Diphilan techniques of verbal humour and performance aims at shedding light on the dramatist's distinctive place in the comic tradition, as well as showcasing a degree of variation in the overall image of the production of new comedy.

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Παραλυόμενος (Paralyomenos) | (“Being Discharged from Service” or “Being Paralysed”)
• Παράσιτος (Parasitos) | („The Parasite”)
• Πελιάδες (Peliades) | (“The Daughters of Pelias”)
• Πήρα (Pēra) | (“The Pouch”)
• Πλινθοφόρος (Plinthophoros) | (“The Brick Carrier”)
• Πολυπράγμων (Polypragmōn) | (“The Busybody”)
• Πύρρα (Pyrrha) | (“Pyrrha”)
• Σαπφώ (Sapphō) | (“Sapphο”)
• Σικελικός (Sikelikos) | (“The Sicilian”)
• Στρατιώτης (Stratiōtēs) | (“The Soldier”)
• Συναποθνῄσκοντες (Synapothnēskontes) | (“Dying Together”)
• Σύντροφοι (Syntrophoi) | (“Foster-Children”)
• Συνωρίς (Synōris) | (“Synōris”)
• Σφαττόμενος (Sphattomenos) | (“The Slit-Throat Man”)
• Σχεδία (Schedia) | (“The Raft”)
• Τελεσίας (Telesias) | (“Telesias”)
• Τήθη (Tēthē) | (“Grandmother”)
• Τιθραύστης (Tithraustēs) | (“Tithraustes”)
• Φιλάδελφος vel Φιλάδελφοι (Philadelphos or Philadelphoi) | (“The Loving Sibling(s)”)
• [Φιλά]νθρωποι (Philanthrōpoi) | (“Philanthropes”)
• Φρέαρ (Phrear) | (“The Well”)
• Χρυσοχόος (Chrysochoos) (“The Goldsmith”)
• Bibliographical Abbreviations
• Bibliography
• Indices