a play called Pytine (The Wineflask) in 423 BC, which defeated the Connus of Ameipsias and The Clouds of Aristophanes, which was produced in the same year. Other plays In Grenfell and Hunt's Oxyrhynchus Papyri, iv. (1904), containing a further instalment of their edition of the Behnesa papyri discovered by them in 1896-1897, one of the greatest curiosities is a scrap of paper bearing the argument of a play by Cratinus, the Dionysalexandros (i.e. Dionysus in the part of Paris), aimed against Pericles; and the epitome reveals something of its wit and point. Other plays of Cratinus include Archilochoi ("The Archilochuses") (c. 448 BC) Boukoloi ("The Cow-Herds") Bousiris ("Busiris") Deliades ("Women From Delos") Didaskaliai ("The Rehearsals") Drapetides ("Female Runaways") Empipramenoi ("Men On Fire") or Idaioi ("The Idaeans") Euneidai ("Children of Euneus") Thrattai ("Women From Thrace") Kleoboulinai ("The Cleobulines") Lakones ("The Laconians") Malthakoi ("The Soft Ones") Nemesis ("Nemesis") Nomoi ("The Laws") Odysseis ("The Odysseuses") Panoptai ("The All-Seers") Ploutoi ("The Gods of Wealth") Pylaia ("The Meeting At Pylae") Satyroi ("Satyrs"), won 2nd prize at the Lenaea of 424 BC Seriphioi ("Men From Seriphus") Trophonios ("Trophonius") Cheimazomenoi ("Storm-Tossed Men"), won 2nd prize at Lenaea of 425 BC Cheirones ("The Chirons") Horai ("The Hours") 462 fragments of Cratinus survive. Style The style of Cratinus has been likened to that of Aeschylus. He appears to have been fond of lofty diction and bold figures, and was most successful in the lyrical parts of his dramas, his choruses being the popular festal songs of his day. According to the statement of a doubtful authority, not borne out by Aristotle, Cratinus increased the number of actors in comedy to three. Standard edition The standard edition of the fragments and testimonia is in Rudolf Kassel and Colin François Lloyd Austin's Poetae Comici Graeci Vol. IV. The eight-volume Poetae Comici Graeci produced from 1983 to 2001 replaces the outdated collections Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum by August Meineke (1839-1857), Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta by Theodor Kock (1880-1888) and Comicorum Graecorum Fragmenta by Georg Kaibel (1899). References Further reading Meineke, Frag. Com. Grace, i. pp. 43 – 58, ii. pp. 13 – 232-; Bergk, Comment, de Rdiq. Com. Alt. Ant. Kock, Com. Attic. Frag., i. pp. 11–130. External links Ancient Library Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum (ed. Meineke) Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta (ed. Kock) 519 BC births 5th-century BC deaths Ancient Greek dramatists and playwrights 5th-century BC Athenians 5th-century BC writers Old Comic poets