Epicarmo e pseudo-Epicarmo (frr. 240–297)

Epicharmus (ca. 530–440 BCE) is the first known Greek comic poet, but his influence in antiquity was in no way limited to dramatic literature. As the result of the interest in moral, linguistic, and philosophical subjects displayed in Epicharmus'' comedies, after his death Epicharmus was believed to have had a real competence in those fields, and a number of moral, philosophical, and scientific tr...