The mimes and fragments
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The mimes and fragments
（Classic commentaries on Latin and Greek texts）
Bristol Classical Press, 2001
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"First published in 1922 by Cambridge University Press, reissued 1966"-- T. p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
English and Greek on opposite pages
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The surviving short mimes of Hero(n)das share much of their aims and background with the Alexandrian poetry of the first half of the third century BC, especially that of Callimachus and Theocritus. They are at once acutely aware of their literary ancestry, their choliambic metre based on archaic Hipponax, their genre on the traditions of Sophron, and their characters largely on the stock of New Comedy. They are literary and learned pieces but at the same time purport to present 'real life', particularly its seamier side - the bawd, the brothel-keeper, the purveyor of leather dildos. The mimes, comparable with but also interestingly different from the hexametre town mimes of Theocritus (and the Iamboi of Callimachus), present comic vignettes of life in Cos and Alexandria.
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