Word: attica
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...origin in the processions in honor of Dionysos. Slow in its growth, comedy attained a perfect form much later than did tragedy. Comedy thrived especially in the Dorian race. Megara in Greece and in Sicily became celebrated as the homes of comedy. Susarion, a Megarian, wandering to Attica with a band of players, established himself at Icaria and thus gave the first impulse to Attic comedy...
...division of Greek comedy into three stages was due to the Alexandrian grammarians and corresponds to the three marked periods in the national history of Athens. There seems to have been some quality inherent in the atmosphere of Attica, which had the remarkable honor of producing comic poets. The names of no less than one-hundred and sixty-eight of these are known. Aristophanes was by no means the only great comedy writer of his time. It is certain that he was defeated six times by other poets...