Middle Comedy

noun

Greek Attic comedy of the 4th century b.c. The few extant fragments are characterized chiefly by a realistic depiction of everyday life.

Professor Butcher calls attention to the early influence of the character sketches on the middle comedy.

There was a splendid poetical library, including all the great tragedians, with the older and the middle Comedy.

It is surprising that the theme should not have attracted the best poets of the Athenian Middle Comedy.

It is represented by the names of thirty-seven writers The Middle Comedy.

On quitting the old for the middle comedy we find ourselves in a different intellectual atmosphere.

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