Posidippus (comic poet)
Posidippus of Cassandreia was a Greek comic poet of the New Comedy.Life
He was the son of Cyniscus, a Macedonian who lived in Athens. He produced his first play in the third year after Menander had died.
Cooks held an important position in his list of characters.
According to Aulus Gellius, Latin comic poets had imitated Posidippus.
His success is shown in a beautiful portrait and sitting statue in the Vatican, which is considered a masterpiece of classical art.
In studying Posidippus' language, Augustus Meineke has detected some new words and old words used in a new sense, completely unknown to the best Attic writers.Works
states that Posidippus wrote forty plays, of which the following eighteen titles are preserved.
- Ἀναβλέπων — The One Who Sees Again
- Ἀποκλειομένη — The Barred Woman
- Γαλάτης — The Gaul
- Δήμοται — Citizens
- Ἑρμαφρόδιτος — The Hermaphrodite
- Ἐπίσταθμος — Harmost or :de:Symposiarch|Symposiarch
- Ἐφεσία — The Ephesian Girl
- Κώδων — The Bell
- Λοκρίδες — The Locrian Women
- Μεταφερόμενοι — The Transported Ones
- Μύρμηξ — The Ant
- Ὅμοιοι — People Who Resemble Each Other
- Παιδίον — The Little Child
- Πορνοβοσκός — The Pimp
- Σύντροφοι — Comrades
- Φιλόσοφοι — Philosophers
- Φιλοπάτωρ — The Father-loving
- Χορεύουσαι — Dancing Girls
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Posidippus sculpture
His statue in the Vatican is considered a masterpiece of ancient art.
