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κωμῳδία κωμ-ῳδία, ἡ, a comedy, Ar., etc.:—Two derivs. are suggested: one from κῶμος, ᾠδή, the revel-song; the other from κώμη, ᾠδή, the village-song. There were three periods of Attic Comedy, Old, Middle, New, — παλαιά, μέση, νέα. The Old Comedy was used to attack by name the most powerful persons of the day, ending B. C. 393; the Middle Comedy lost the chorus, but still attacked notabilities under assumed characters, ending B. C. 337; the New was our Comedy of Manners, and may be best understood from Plautus and Terence.

ShortDef

a comedy

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Headword:

κωμῳδία

Headword (normalized):

κωμῳδία

Headword (normalized/stripped):

κωμωδια

IDX:

19101

URN:

urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionary-entries.atlas_v1:middle-liddell.perseus-eng2-n19120

Key:

kwmw|di/a

Data

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