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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 290 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DIPHILUS , of See also:

Sinope, poet of the new See also:Attic See also:comedy and contemporary of See also:Menander (342-291 B.C.). Most of his plays were written and acted at See also:Athens, but he led a wandering See also:life, and died at See also:Smyrna. He was on intimate terms with the famous courtesan Gnathaena (See also: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 See also:judge from the imitations of See also:Plautus. (Casina from theKn77pouge/at, Asinaria from the 'Ovayos, Rudens from some other See also:play), he was very skilful in the construction of his plots. See also:Terence also tells us that he introduced into the Adelphi (ii. I) a See also:scene from the luvatro8vi7-aKOVTES, which had been omitted by Plautus in his See also:adaptation 1 (Commorientes) of the same play. The See also:style of Diphilus was See also:simple and natural, and his See also:language on the whole See also:good Attic; he paid See also:great See also:attention to versification, and was supposed to have invented a See also:peculiar See also:kind of See also:metre. The ancients were undecided whether to class him among the writers of the New or See also:Middle comedy.

In his fondness for mythological subjects (See also:

Hercules, See also:Theseus) and his introduction on the See also:stage (by a bold See also:anachronism) of the poets See also:Archilochus and Hipponax as rivals of See also:Sappho, he approximates to the spirit of the latter. Fragments in H. See also:Koch, Comicorum Atticorum, fragments, ii.; see J. See also:Denis, La Comedie grecque (1886), ii. p. 414; R. W. See also:Bond in Classical See also:Review (Feb. 1910, with trans. of Emporos fragm.).

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