This work is part of the Fragmenta Comica series which aims to provide
commentaries and translations to all the surviving fragments and
testimonia of the comic poets of ancient Greece. This volume offers the
first scholarly commentary and sustained study of several late
fourth-century BCE poets of the so-called New Comedy - among them
Philippides of Athens, a writer and dramatist highly esteemed in
antiquity, known especially for his acrimonious clashes with Athenian
demagogues and his influential friendship with foreign kings. All
fragments are subject to close textual, linguistic and stylistic
analysis, and are interpreted against the wider literary, social and
historical background of the period. This volume will be a valuable
reference work for scholars and students of ancient comedy, as well as
anyone interested in ancient literature more generally and the broader
historical and cultural contexts in which these texts were written.
