all other Old Comedy playwrights and plays.

Origins and history

The word "comedy" (, komoidía) derives from the words for 'revel' and 'song' (??u??, komos, and ???, oide) and according to Aristotle comic drama actually developed from song. The first official comedy at the City Dionysia was not staged until 487/6 BCE, by which time tragedy had already been long established there. The first comedy

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