Rhinthon
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Rhinthon
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Rhinthon was a Hellenistic dramatist. The son of a potter, he was probably a native of Syracuse, Magna Graecia, and afterwards settled at Tarentum. He invented the hilarotragoedia, (Ἱλαροτραγῳδία) a burlesque of tragic subjects. Such burlesques were also called phlyakes ("fooleries") and their writers phlyakographoi. He was the author of thirty-eight plays, of which only a few titles and lines have been preserved, chiefly by the grammarians, as illustrating dialectic Tarentine forms. The metre i
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