Diphilus

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Diphilus

(dĭf`ĭləs), fl. 300 B.C., Greek dramatist of the New Comedy, b. Sinope. His many dramas (perhaps 100) were extensively adapted by Plautus and Terence and influenced the entire Roman stage. The fragments of his works that remain reveal his talent for strongly contrasted scenes and brilliant theatrical effects.

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Philippe Legrand (1902, 371) proposed that the oddity was due to contamination, because Plautus assigned lines to Myrrhina that Diphilus had assigned to a male character in his Kleroumenoi, the professed Greek source of Plautus's play (Cas.

In defense of Myrrhina: friendship between women in Plautus's Casina

by the Roman Diphilus of Siphnos for his recipe of scallops with pepper.

Pepper: humanity has been smitten with pepper for nearly three thousand years, and our yearning for it has enticed us into the furthest reaches of the world

Diphilus would just as soon maintain his own corporeal truth, masochistic suggestions notwithstanding: "You should not; I would first/Mangle myself and find it" (3.

Anatomizing the body politic: corporeal rhetoric in The Maid's Tragedy

hetaira in Athens, invited Diphilus, the New Comedy writer, to a feast at her home in celebration of an Aphrodite festival (Machon ap.

WOMEN'S COMMENSALITY IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD

41) It is obvious, on the other hand, that (i) is the scene which Terence introduced from Diphilus, depicting an adulescens .

TERENCE, ADELPHOE: PROBLEMS OF DRAMATIC SPACE AND TIME(*)

On Casina as an adaptation from a Greek original by Diphilus see Prolog.

Sorting out the lot in Republican Rome

Diphilus excelled in scenes of action and spectacle, and his style is especially marked by its vivid imagery.

Diphilus

610d), Diphilus goes to Gnathea's place to celebrate the Aphrodisia, bringing with him all the apparatus for the party, including perfume, garlands, snacks, a kid goat, ribbons, fish, a cook, and a piper for later ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]).

Associating the auletris: flute girls and prostitutes in the classical Greek symposium

No names of characters preserved in fragments of Diphilus seem to play similar games.

SCENTS AND SENSIBILITY IN PLAUTUS' CASINA

11) The synchronism with Archilochus may have been based on the comedy of Diphilus portraying Hipponax and Archilochus as rival lovers competing for the favor of Sappho (see Athenaeus 13.

Elemental psychology and the date of Semonides of Amorgos

In his seventh and last novel, Gryll Grange, for example, the epigraphs to individual chapters are drawn from, among other authors, Alcaeus, Diphilus, Nonnus, Philetaerus, Anacreon, Palladas, and Alexis.

Reading Greek like a man of the world: Macaulay and the classical languages

The connection is strengthened by turning to other popular representatives of New Comedy, such as Diphilus and Philemon, who make use of sexual themes and language, including even obscene jokes.