source for the claim that Diphilus acted in his own plays. An anonymous essay on comedy from antiquity reports that Diphilus wrote 100 plays. Of these...
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best-known playwrights belonging to this genre are Menander, Philemon, and Diphilus. The playwrights of the New Comedy genre built on the legacy from their...
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Diphilus, (Greek: Δίφιλος), a Greek physician of Siphnus, one of the Cyclades, who was a contemporary of Lysimachus, king of Thrace, about the beginning...
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was born and buried at Sinope, and it was the birthplace of Diogenes, of Diphilus, poet and actor of the New Attic comedy, of the historian Baton, and of...
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and quality of flours used to produce bread could also vary, as noted by Diphilus when he declared that "bread made of wheat, as compared with that made...
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Flatterer, while the Adelphi was compiled partly from Menander and partly from Diphilus. The original of Terence's Hecyra (as of the Phormio) is generally supposed...
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the Americas where they are not native. The third century BC physician Diphilus of Siphnus wrote that "[mallow] juice lubricates the windpipe, nourishes...
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ISBN 0-415-11620-1, p.189 'ᾠά τάριχα' 'eggs [of fish] preserved by salting', citing Diphilus of Siphnos quoted in Athenaeus III, 121 C. Hughes & Wasson 1947, p. 415...
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Pella, Archytas, Archimedes, Ctesibius, Nymphodorus, Philo of Byzantium, Diphilus, Democles, Charias, Polyidus of Thessaly, Pyrrus, Agesistratus List of...
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poet Mimnermus, elegiac poet Callinus, elegiac poet Hipponax, iambic poet Diphilus, one of the greatest poets of New Comedy Quintus Smyrnaeus, epic poet George...
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