a great deal from him, as Alcimus says in the essays dedicated to Amyntas [of Heraclea]…." Laërtius then lists, in III, 10, the several ways that Plato "employs the words of Epicharmus." Quotations "A mortal should think mortal thoughts, not immortal thoughts." "The best thing a man can have, in my view, is health." "The hand washes the hand: give something and you may get something." "Then what is the nature of men? Blown-up bladders!" "Don't forget to exercise incredulity; for it is the sinews of the soul." Notes References Philip Wentworth Buckham, Theatre of the Greeks, 1827. P.E. Easterling (Series Editor), Bernard M.W. Knox (Editor), Cambridge History of Classical Literature, v.I, Greek Literature, 1985. , cf. Chapter 12, p. 367 on Epicharmus and others. Rudolf Kassel, C. Austin (Editor) Poetae Comici Graeci: Agathenor-Aristonymus (Poetae Comici Graeci), 1991. Lucía Rodríguez-Noriega Guillén, Epicarmo de Siracusa: testimonios y fragmentos, Oviedo: Universidad de Oviedo, Servicio de Publicaciones, 1996. (lxiv, 247 pages) ISBN 847468935X A. W. Pickard-Cambridge, Dithyramb, Tragedy, and Comedy, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927, (repr. 1962). Plato, Theaetetus. William Ridgeway, contrib. The Dramas and Dramatic Dances of Non-European Races. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1915. Xavier Riu, Dionysism and Comedy, 1999. Lucia Rodríguez-Noriega Guillén, Epicarmo de Siracusa. Testimonios y Fragmentos. Edición crítica bilingüe.; Oviedo: Universidad de Oviedo, Servicio de Publicaciones, 1996. Reviewed by Kathryn Bosher, University of Michigan, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.10.24 Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870, article on Epicharmus, Theocritus, Idylls and Epigrams. (Theocritus translated into English Verse by C.S. Calverley, ) External links An article on Epicharmus at Theatrehistory.com Epicharmus Fragments at demonax.info 540s BC births 450s BC deaths Sicilian Greeks Pythagoreans Ancient Greek dramatists and playwrights Ancient Greek poets Ancient Koans Doric Greek poets Old Comic poets