Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (Jan 2006)

Gnomology and Criticism

  • William J. Slater

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 41, no. 2
pp. 99 – 121

Abstract

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Of popular maxims in drama, Eur. Hipp. 695-701 is not sophistic thought but conventional morality, and reworkings of Phrynichus fr.9 show that this maxim has evolved in the telling.