The Origin of Attic Comedy
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Sohol. ad loc. . . .
fj hbirXiov Spxv'i-'' iTroiuTo is certainly the right interpretation.
' Suidas, s. V. M^Xoi'. The ' reviling ' points to a ritual aWxpoKoyla.
SOME TYPES OF DRAMATIC FERTILITY RITUAL 67 Thebea, when the God came to his own, and his own received him not.
Another legend of this same cult tells of a duel between Xanthus (' fair man ') and Melanthus (' black man '), who is, as the story shows, a double of Dionysus of the Black Goatskin himself.^ As ^ the two were about to fight,... Melanthus saw behind his opponent a figure wearing a black goatskin, and accused him of having brought a second to this single combat. Xanthus, turning to look, was killed. J Usener,^ in the light of the spring combat of the Macedonian Xandika, saw that this duel was the fight of the God of fight and summer against his antagonist of darkness and winter. He added : ' I have no doubt that the contest (aymv), in which Ziefinski has taught us to see a constant and central element of the Old Attic Comedy, was originally the regular battle of the Gods of Summer and Winter.' This suggestion has since been taken up by Dr.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Sohol. ad loc. . . .
fj hbirXiov Spxv'i-'' iTroiuTo is certainly the right interpretation.
' Suidas, s. V. M^Xoi'. The ' reviling ' points to a ritual aWxpoKoyla.
SOME TYPES OF DRAMATIC FERTILITY RITUAL 67 Thebea, when the God came to his own, and his own received him not.
Another legend of this same cult tells of a duel between Xanthus (' fair man ') and Melanthus (' black man '), who is, as the story shows, a double of Dionysus of the Black Goatskin himself.^ As ^ the two were about to fight,... Melanthus saw behind his opponent a figure wearing a black goatskin, and accused him of having brought a second to this single combat. Xanthus, turning to look, was killed. J Usener,^ in the light of the spring combat of the Macedonian Xandika, saw that this duel was the fight of the God of fight and summer against his antagonist of darkness and winter. He added : ' I have no doubt that the contest (aymv), in which Ziefinski has taught us to see a constant and central element of the Old Attic Comedy, was originally the regular battle of the Gods of Summer and Winter.' This suggestion has since been taken up by Dr.
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