| Sumario: | The article focuses on the two major articles of Callias' "Alphabet Tragedy," one of them appearing in the pages of this journal "Classical Philogy," are recent additions in what has proven to be a generation-long push toward the proper incorporation of the fragments of this fascinating fifth (or perhaps fourth) century comedy into the framework of Classical Greek drama and, just as significantly, into the social dynamics of literacy and the promulgation of written literature at Athens. While these two studies differ markedly in critical assumption and approach, both wrestle earnestly with the seemingly intractable and confused testimony preserved in the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus.
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