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This book is the first comprehensive study ever devoted to the comic poets Epicrates, Epigenes, and Eriphus, figures previously known only through scattered quotations from later sources. The volume studies their fragments for the first time, reconstructs the lost plays and restores these playwrights to the history of Greek comedy. A ground-breaking contribution is the correct dating of Epigenes to New Comedy, the final phase of Greek Comedy, overturning a long-standing error that had shaped scholarship since the nineteenth century. By combining close reading with cultural and historical...