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Phormis (Gr****: Φόρμις; fl. c. 478 BC) is one of the
originators of Gr**** comedy, or of a
particular form of it.
Aristotle identified him as one of the...
- colonies, died in
Sicily in the
colony of Gela in 456 BC.
Epicarmus and
Phormis, both of 6th
century BC, are the basis, for Aristotle, of the invention...
- made
statues of
ancient Olympic victors and Gr****
mythological figures.
Phormis of Maenalus, a
distinguished fighter who
became rich in
service of Gelo...
-
either kind of poetry".
Aristotle (Poetics 5.1449b5)
writes that he and
Phormis invented comic plots (μῦθοι, muthoi). The 12th-century
philosopher Constantine...
- (personifying
Nineveh to Gr****s) and
Belos ("ruler").
Epicharmus of Kos and
Phormis are
reported as
having been
among the
first to
invent comic fables. Many...
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Megara (fl. c. 580 BC)
Epicharmus of Kos (fl.
between c. 540 – c. 450 BC)
Phormis (late 6th century)
Dinolochus (fl. 487 BC)
Euetes (fl. 485 BC) Euxenides...
-
century BC)
Susarion of
Megara (~580 BC)
Epicharmus of Kos (~540–450 BC)
Phormis, late 6th
century BC Dinolochus, 487 BC
Euetes 485 BC
Euxenides 485 BC...
- it, it seems, the
theatrical activities of the
playwrights Epicharmus,
Phormis and
Deinolocus took place. At Syracuse,
Aeschylus put on "The Aetnans"...
- Doric-Siceliote
comedy itself,
whose main
exponents were
Epicharmus of Kos and
Phormis,
served as a
model for the
subsequent Attic Gr****
comedy of the 5th century...
- colonies, died in
Sicily in the
colony of Gela in 456 BC.
Epicarmus and
Phormis, both of 6th
century BC, are the basis, for Aristotle, of the invention...
