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See also:PHILEMON (c. 361–263 B.C.)
, See also:Greek poet of the New See also:Comedy, was See also:born at See also:Soli in See also:Cilicia, or at See also:Syracuse
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He settled at See also:Athens See also:early in See also:life, and his first See also:play was produced in 330
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He was a contemporary and See also:rival of See also:Menander, whom he frequently vanquished in poetical contests
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Posterity reversed the See also:verdict and attributed See also:Philemon's successes to unfair See also:influence
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He made a See also:journey to the See also:east, and resided at the See also:court of See also:Ptolemy, See also: The See also:Merchant and The Treasure of Philemon were the originals respectively of the See also:Mercator and Trinummus of See also:Plautus . The fragments preserved by See also:Stobaeus, See also:Athenaeus and other writers contain much wit and See also:good sense . See also:Quintilian (Instil. x . 1, 72) assigned the second See also:place among the poets of the New Comedy christl . Behandlung sozialer Fragen (1896), as well as in Dr A . H. to Philemon, and Apuleius, who had a high See also:opinion of him, has See also:drawn a comparison between him and Menander . See A . See also:Meineke, Menandri et Philemonis reliquiae (1823, including See also:Bentley's emendations); T . See also:Kock, Comicorum graecorum fragmenta, vol. iii . (1884) . |
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