. The Greek theater and its drama. V irpd)]TwvlKapi4u)Vj evpbvroi Ziovjapiuvos, Kal \ov iridrjirpuiTov i<rx<i5w[»] &p(TLxo[%\ Kal oivov fie\T^pi\T-fis, [eTTj .... The exact date is notdeterminable but is limited to a period of twenty years by other entries just beforeand after this one. ^ Figs. 12 and 13 are taken, by permission of the Council of the Hellenic Society,from the Journal of Hellenic Studies, II (1881), PI. XIV, Ai and Bi; Fig. 14 fromPoppelreuter, op. cit., p. 8; and Figs. 15 and 16 from Robinson, Boston MuseumCatalogue of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Vases (1893), p. 136.

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. The Greek theater and its drama. V irpd)]TwvlKapi4u)Vj evpbvroi Ziovjapiuvos, Kal \ov iridrjirpuiTov i<rx<i5w[»] &p(TLxo[%\ Kal oivov fie\T^pi\T-fis, [eTTj .... The exact date is notdeterminable but is limited to a period of twenty years by other entries just beforeand after this one. ^ Figs. 12 and 13 are taken, by permission of the Council of the Hellenic Society,from the Journal of Hellenic Studies, II (1881), PI. XIV, Ai and Bi; Fig. 14 fromPoppelreuter, op. cit., p. 8; and Figs. 15 and 16 from Robinson, Boston MuseumCatalogue of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Vases (1893), p. 136. 3 Cf. Capps, University of Chicago Decennial Publications, VI, 286, and AmericanJournal of Philology, XXVIII (1907), 186 y. INTRODUCTION 39 Before we can proceed further, it will be necessary to con-sider the nature of ancient comedy. In the time of Hadrianthe history of literary comedy at Athens was divided into threeperiods, called Old. Middle, and New Comedy, Comedy came to a close shortly after the beginning of thefourth century Politics and scurrilous attacks uponcontemporaneous personages made up the bulk of its subject-matter. Living men, such as Pericles, Socrates, Euripides, and

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