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‘Akin to this kind of comedy* seems to have been the mime, a short realistic sketch of scenes from everyday life. These were written rather later by Sophron of Syracuse; only fragments have survived but they were important for their influence on Plato’s dialogue form and on Hellenistic mime.

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*[See last previous entry]

**[ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 20:] 401-402]

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