Ateneo y Cratino
ISSN: 1131-8848
Year of publication: 1993
Issue: 4-5
Pages: 51-76
Type: Article
More publications in: Florentia Iliberritana: Revista de estudios de Antigüedad Clásica
Abstract
Athenaeus of Naucratis is important for both the information he transmits on a great number of different subjects and for his role as provider of fragments, many of them had not come to us through any other means. The comedy, above all Middle and New, is the most beneficient of all the genres. Cratinus'62 fragments which are found in Athenaeus will help us to understand some aspects of his work. First of all we shall study the formulae he use to introduce a fragment, secondly, the subjects or motifs for which the comic writer is being quoted and lastly the importance of these in the whole remaining corpus of Cratinus' work.