ALEXIS.
Plays named after Hetaerae:—Agonis, Atthis?, Choregis, Dorcis?, Isostasium, Lampas, Meropis?, Opora, Pamphile, Pezonice, Polycleia, Ponera?
Plays on mythological erotic subjects:—Atalanta, Galatea, Helenes Harpage, Helenes Mnesteres, Hesione, Iasis?.
Other plays apparently dealing with erotic subjects:—Achaeis?, Apocoptomenus, Bostrychus?, Brettia?, Cnidia?, Curis, Epiclerus?, Hypnus, Lemnia?, Leucadia? (can this play have dealt with the proceedings of the comic poet Nicostratus?), Mandragorizomene, Olynthia, Orchestris, Pallace, Phaedrus, Philocalus, Philusa, Poëtria?, Traumatias.
Agonis. Vide supra, [p. 156].
Apocoptomenus 1. Lovers have wings and Love has none.
Cleobuline. A mention of the Hetaera Sinope.
Curis 1, 2. A father of two sons, one highly respectable, the other less so.
Dropides. An Hetaera brings in a decanter of sweet wine during dinner.
Graphe. The story of the man who fell in love with the statue at Samos. (It would be obvious to suggest that in this play a man is introduced who falls in love with a picture. More probably, however, this passage comes from the speech of some painter who is extolling his art, possibly to some lady, in the way Ovid used to do. Cp. Ars Amat. iii. 397 seqq., 533 seqq., etc.)
Gynaecocratia. Perhaps introduced women in the theatre, like the Scenas Catalambanusae of Aristophanes.
Helene. A mock (?) Platonic view of love. (Vide supra, [p. 161].)
Hesione 2. The heroine complains that, as soon as Heracles saw that his dinner was ready, he ceased to take any notice of her.
Homoea. A girl is asked to order dinner.
Hypnus 1. Two women asking one another riddles.
Isostasium 1. An attack on the artificiality of Hetaerae.
Lampas. The protest of an angry father at his son’s extravagance. (Cp. Mnesimach. Dyscolus.)
Lyciscus 1. A mention of the Hetaera Pythionice.
Mandragorizomene 5. A lover visits his sick lady. The whole play seems to have turned on a subject of this kind (cp. Fr. 2), and calls to mind pictures like that in Ovid, Ars Amat. ii. 319 seqq., especially 333 seqq.
Manteis. The slavery of marriage.
Meropis. A lady complains of the late arrival of someone, perhaps her maid.
Olynthia 1, 2. The poor circumstances of the heroine’s family.
Orchestris. All that women want is plenty of wine.
Pallace. Perhaps the answer of the husband to his indignant wife.
Pamphile. The proper food for a lover. (Cp. Incert. 18.)
Phaedrus 1. The nature of love.
Philocalos. A stingy man inviting ladies to dinner.
Philusa 1. The Aphrodisia.
Tarantini 5. An allusion to the Hetaera Nannion.
Thrason. A talkative woman.
Traumatias 2. Only lovers really live.
Incert. 14. A repetition of the remark of Eubulus (Incert. 3) on the inconsistency of women in preferring old wine and young men.
18. The proper food for a lover. (Cp. Pamphile.)
26. Inviting a woman to drink.
31. The three pleasures of life.
34. Marriage worse than disfranchisement.
35. One’s mother is deserving of the highest respect. (Cp. Antiphanes, Philometor.)
38. Love the best tutor. (Cp. Anaxandr. Incert. 10, where, however, the image is slightly different.)
39. Nothing is more shameless than a woman—as I know from my own wife.
40. Nothing is so difficult to guard as a woman.
53. The word διαπεπαρθενευκότα.