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| Epicharmus |
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( p kär´m s) (KEY) , c.550c.460 B.C., Sicilian Greek comic dramatist. He was the first to write a coherent artistic comedy, and he dealt with forms other than personal satire such as mythological burlesque. | 1 | | See A. W. Pickard-Cambridge, Dithyramb, Tragedy, and Comedy (1927, repr. 1962). | 2 |
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