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:''For the epigrammatic poet, see Posidippus''. Posidippus of Cassandreia (Greek: Ποσείδιππος ''Poseidippos''; 316 – c. 250 BC) was a Greek comic poet of the New Comedy. ==Life== He was the son of Cyniscus, a Macedonian who lived in Athens. He produced his first play in the third year after Menander had died, (289 BC). Cooks held an important position in his list of characters. According to Aulus Gellius, Latin comic poets had imitated Posidippus. His success is shown in a beautiful portrait and sitting statue in the Vatican, which is considered a masterpiece of classical art. In studying Posidippus' language, Augustus Meineke has detected some new words and old words used in a new sense, completely unknown to the best Attic writers. According to Suidas he wrote 40 plays of which the following titles and fragments are preserved. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Posidippus (comic poet)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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