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POSIDIPPUS (3rd cent. B.C.)

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POSIDIPPUS (3rd cent. B.C.) , See also:Greek dramatist, of Cassandrea in See also:Macedonia, the last and one of the most distinguished of the writers of the new See also:comedy. He began to write for the See also:stage in 289 B.C., and, according to Suidas, wrote 40 plays, of which 17 titles and some fragments have been preserved. He appears to have gone somewhat out of the beaten track in his choice of subjects, and it is evident that cooks held an important position in his See also:list of characters. His comedies were frequently imitated by the See also:Romans (Aulus See also:Gellius ii. 23), and it is considered very probable that the Menaechmi (a comedy of errors) of See also:Plautus is an See also:adaptation either from the "Oisotot, or from some unknown comedy of Posidippus, called Ditv,uot, or perhaps MEVa1Xt1oL. His statue in the Vatican is considered a masterpiece of See also:ancient See also:art. Fragments in A. See also:Meineke, Poetarum comicorum graecorum fragmenta (1855). POSIDIPPuS is also the name of a writer of epigrams (c. 270 B.C.), of which about 30 are preserved in the Greek See also:Anthology. See W.

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Christ, Griechische Litteraturgeschichte (1898).

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