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Indeed it is only quite late in its historyProbably about 465
B.C. that the archon granted a chorus for a comic poet; before that they
were volunteers.In the fifth century dramatists
submitted their plays to the archon in charge of the festival at which they
wished them to be performed. He selected the number required by the particular
festival, and to the poets thus selected "granted a chorus," i.e., provided a
choregus who paid the expenses of the chorus. The earlier "volunteers" had
themselves paid for and produced their plays.
Comedy had already taken certain forms
before there is any mention of those who are called its poets. Who introduced masks
or prologues, the number of actors, and so on, is not known. Plot making [Epicharmus and
Phormis]Epicharmus and Phormis, being
both early Sicilian "comedians", are appropriate here. Either part of a sentence
is lost or an explanatory note has got into the text. originally cam