Machon: The Fragments
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Machon was a writer of Comedies who lived and worked in Alexandria in the middle of the third century B.C. All of his work that survives is preserved in the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus who, besides two fragments of Comedies of no great importance, quotes also 462 verses from a collection of anecdotes which Machon called Xpeiai. These anecdotes are written in the iambic verse of Comedy. They are concerned with the doings and sayings of courtesans,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521609291
ISBN13:9780521609296
Release Date:August 2004
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:172 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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