Word: susarion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...origin. According to Aristotle, comedy had its 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...
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