The Stranger

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The Stranger is an ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Diphilus, known from fragments and later adaptations in Roman New Comedy.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek comedy
lost play
associatedWith Athenian theatre NERFINISHED
author Diphilus NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Greek Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Greece
culturalContext Hellenistic Athens NERFINISHED
dateOfComposition 3rd century BCE (approximate)
genre New Comedy NERFINISHED
hasAdaptation Roman New Comedy plays (general)
hasFragmentSource later ancient authors (general)
influenced Roman New Comedy NERFINISHED
knownFrom fragments
later Roman adaptations
language Ancient Greek
literaryForm stage comedy
literaryStatus survives only in fragments
literaryTradition Greek New Comedy NERFINISHED
originalMedium theatrical performance
partOf corpus of Greek New Comedy
preservationStatus fragmentary
relatedTo Roman comic playwrights (general)
subjectMatter comic treatment of social relations (inferred for New Comedy)
titleInEnglish The Stranger NERFINISHED
titleInGreek unknown (lost original Greek title)
workOf Diphilus NERFINISHED

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Diphilus hasWork The Stranger