Ancient Greece and Rome 1200 B.c.e.-476 C.e.: Literature - Research Article from Arts and Humanities Through the Eras

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 171 pages of information about Ancient Greece and Rome 1200 B.c.e.-476 C.e..

Ancient Greece and Rome 1200 B.c.e.-476 C.e.: Literature - Research Article from Arts and Humanities Through the Eras

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Beginnings.

The early history of comedy is unclear, remarked Aristotle in his On the Art of Poetry, because no one took it seriously. The polis of Megara which was sandwiched between Corinth and Athens claimed to have invented it, as did Sicily, which produced a writer of farces, Epicharmus, who was patronized by the tyrants of Syracuse Gelon (485–478 B.C.E.) and his successor Hiero (478–467 B.C.E.). Little of his work survives, though there is enough to make us regret its loss. He wrote burlesques of myths: one play called Hebe's Wedding was set in Olympus and parodied the marriage of Heracles to Hebe. Deified though he might be, Heracles was still portrayed much as he was in the comic theater: a muscle-bound lout who gobbled up his food, and drank until he was drunk. Another type of comedy that Epicharmus wrote dealt with contemporary...

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