The Woman from Perinthus

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The Woman from Perinthus is an ancient Greek New Comedy play by Diphilus, known through fragments and later adaptations by Roman playwrights.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf New Comedy play
ancient Greek play
lost play
associatedWithAuthor Plautus NERFINISHED
Terence NERFINISHED
author Diphilus NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Greek Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Greece
culturalContext Hellenistic Greece NERFINISHED
dateOfComposition 3rd century BCE
dramaticGenre comedy
dramaticPeriod Greek New Comedy period NERFINISHED
extantStatus fragmentary
survives in fragments
genre New Comedy
hasAdaptation Perinthia (lost Roman comedy) NERFINISHED
Roman New Comedy tradition
hasWorkTitleInGreek Ἡ ἐκ Περίνθου (He ek Perinthou) NERFINISHED
hasWorkTitleInLatin Perinthia NERFINISHED
influenced Roman comedy
knownThrough fragments
later Roman adaptations
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
literaryForm verse drama
literaryTradition Greek New Comedy NERFINISHED
originalLanguage Ancient Greek
partOf corpus of Diphilus
scholarlyTopic Greek–Roman comic intertextuality
reconstruction of lost Greek comedies
setting Perinthus NERFINISHED
Thracian city of Perinthus
subgenre domestic comedy
subjectMatter relationships and household affairs
transmission indirect tradition
quotations in later authors

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Diphilus hasWork The Woman from Perinthus