WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE COMEDY FRAGMENTS.
(Plays in italics and marked with an asterisk are wholly lost. Of those in italics no fragment of importance is preserved.)
ANTIPHANES.
Plays named after Hetaerae:—Antea?, Archestrata?, Chrysis, Malthace, Melitta, Neottis, Philotis.
Plays dealing apparently with a similar class of society:—Acestria, Aleiptria, Anterosa, Auletris?, Corinthia?, Curis?, Dyserotes, Halieuomene?, Hydria, Mystis?, Neanisci.
Plays relating to erotic mythological subjects:—Aeolus, Andromeda?, Antea?, Arcas?, Caeneus?, Glaucus, Melanion (the misogynist, cp. Aristoph. Lys. 784), Meleager?, Omphale?, Phaon?
Other plays, the titles of which suggest erotic incidents: Acontizomene?, Aphrodisius?, Asoti?, Delia?, Epiclerus?, Gamus?, Harpazomene?, Lemniae, Moechi, Sappho (in the fragments the poetess merely appears as asking riddles).
Acontizomene. The drunkenness of women.
Aeolus 1. Parody of the prologue of the Canace of Euripides.