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There are a number of writers of the old comedy,
but the best are Aristophanes, Eupolis and Cratinus.1 Aeschylus was the first to bring tragedy into
prominence: he is lofty, dignified, grandiloquent
often to a fault, but frequently uncouth and inharmonious. Consequently, the Athenians allowed
later poets to revise his tragedies and to produce
them in the dramatic contests, and many succeeded
in winning the prize by such means.
1 Contemporaries: Cratinus (519–422), Aristophanes (448– 380), Eupolis (446–410).
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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