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- form that blended tragic and comic elements, known as phlyax play or hilarotragedy, developed in the Gr**** colonies of Magna Graecia by the late 4th century...
- play (Ancient Gr****: φλύαξ, pl: φλύακες, phlyakes), also known as a hilarotragedy (Ἱλαροτραγῳδία lit. 'cheerful tragedy'), was a burlesque dramatic form...