Herodas

CLAUDIA N. FERNÁNDEZ

The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy

Wiley-Blackwell

Lugar: Oxford; Año: 2019; p. 419 - 420

Herodas may have been part of the Alexandrian scholarly court of the Ptolemies, and a contemporary of Theocritus and Calimachus. It is assumed that he lived circa 270 BC. He was author of mimes -also called choliambs-: short dramatic poems that portray characters, belonging to the lower rungs of society, set in realistic scenes drawn from everyday life. The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy is a comprehensive and accessible reference covering all of Greek comedy and its reception from antiquity to the present. Features the work of nearly 200 established and rising scholars from around the world. Contains more than 1300 entries, organized in A-Z format, with helpful cross-references and an index of authors and plays. Provides extensive and detailed coverage of the work of those dramatists who have no complete plays extant.