Rosen, Ralph M2023-05-222023-05-2219982006-09-27https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/8076Ever since Antiphanes brought on the stage a character, perhaps Comedy herself, complaining that comedy was more difficult to compose than tragedy (fr. 189.17-23 K-A), it has become something of a truism to say that the poets of Old Comedy had at their disposal much richer and less generically restricted literary possibilities than their colleagues working in tragedy.Book Chapter