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RHINTHON (c. 323–285 B.C.)

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RHINTHON (c. 323–285 B.C.) , See also:Greek dramatist, son of a See also:potter. He was probably a native of See also:Syracuse and after-wards settled at See also:Tarentum. He invented the hilarotragoedia, a See also:burlesque of tragic subjects. Such travesties were also called phlyaces(" fooleries ") and their writers phlyacographi. He was the author of See also:thirty-eight plays, of which only a few titles (See also:Amphitryon, Heracles, See also:Orestes) and lines have been preserved, chiefly by the grammarians, as illustrating See also:dialectic Tarentine forms. The See also:metre is See also:iambic, in which the greatest See also:licence is allowed. The Amphitruo of See also:Plautus, although probably imitated from a different writer (See also:Archippus of the See also:Middle See also:Comedy), may be taken as a specimen of the manner in which such subjects were treated. There is no doubt that the hilarotragoedia exercised considerable See also:influence on Latin comedy, the Rhinthonica (i.e. fabula) being mentioned by various authorities amongst other kinds of See also:drama known to the See also:Romans. Scenes from these travesties are probably represented in certain See also:vase paintings from See also:Lower See also:Italy, for which see H. Heydemann, " See also:Die Phlyakendarstellungen auf bemalten Vasen," in Jahrbuch See also:des archaologischen Instituts, i. (1886).

Fragments in monograph by E. Volker (See also:

Leipzig, 1887) ; see also E. Sommerbrodt, De Phlyacographia Graecorum (See also:Breslau, 1875) ; W. See also:Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur (1898).

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