AMPHIS.
Several plays satirising women, such as the Acco* (the silly woman), the Gynaecocratia and the Gynaecomania.
The Scholiast of Germanicus’ Aratea quotes the legends of Zeus and Callisto (p. 38), and of the Dog Star and Opora (p. 76) from Amphis; these legends seem to have occurred in plays now lost.[369]
Of the Sappho no important fragment is preserved.
Amphicrates. A confidential slave arguing with his young master on the folly of the latter’s attachment to a certain lady.
Athamas. The inevitable superiority of the Hetaera over the wife.
Curis 1, 2. An Hetaera who deserves to be rich, more than Sinope and the others who are.
Dithyrambus 2. Ridicule of “Platonic” love.
Gynaecocratia. The liberated husband. (It is easy to imagine how the outraged wife breaks in upon this happy party, something after the manner of Cynthia in Prop. iv. 8.)
Gynaecomania. Seems to suggest a similar scene, if indeed, the two plays be not one and the same.
Ialemus 1. An invective against lettuces.