This type of stuff seems to have represented the authentic local variety of humorous drama in Attica, the genuine folk background of Athenian comic produce, before the advent of any exterior influence or the innovations of strong poets it was the peculiar contribution of the native Attic spirit to the thematic repertoire of comedy. Rather, this particular range of themes was present in the Attic comic imagination from the very beginning, already from the first extempore performances that grew out of the primitive comastic rituals. This thematic tendency was neither inherited from Sicilian comedy, like myth burlesque and social types, nor introduced by an innovative master of the mature age of comic dramaturgy, in the way that political satire was inaugurated by Cratinus. Apart from mythical travesty, political satire, and the comedy of everyday life, there was also another vast source of subject-matter which nourished many Attic comic plays, down to the end of the “Old Comedy” period.
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