Keywords
Old Comedy
anaphora
comic style
Plutarch
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Abstract
This article explores the thematic and stylistic function of the anaphora in the anonymous fragment of Old Comedy (741 K.-A.). It also analyses an interpretation of Plutarch’s comment on these lines.
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