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Greek comic poet, a native of Tripodiscus in Megaris. About 58o B.C. he transplanted the Megarian See also:comedy (if the See also:rude extempore jests and buffoonery deserve the name) into the See also:Attic deme of Icaria, the See also:cradle also of Greek tragedy and the See also:oldest seat of the See also:worship of See also:Dionysus. According to the Parian See also:Chronicle, there appears to have been a competition on this occasion; in which the See also:prize was a See also:basket of See also:figs and an See also:amphora of See also:wine. Susarion's improvements in his native farces did not include a See also:separate actor or a See also:regular See also:plot, but probably consisted in substituting metrical compositions for the old extempore effusions of the See also:chorus. These were intended for recitation, and not committed to See also:writing. But such performances did not suit the See also:taste of the Athenians, and nothing more is heard of them until eighty years after the See also:time of Susarion. U. von. Wilamowitz-Mollendorff (in See also:Hermes, ix.) considers the so-called Megarian comedy to have been an invention of the Athenians themselves, intended as a See also:satire on Megarian coarseness and vulgarity. The lines attributed to Susarion (in See also:Meineke, Poetarum comicorum graecorum fragmenla) are probably not genuine.

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