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grbs-16527	Spelman, Henry	Of Armpits and the Origins of Comedy: Aristophanes fr. 264 and 265	2021	14	.pdf	application/pdf	4893	245	63	If Aristopha- nes’ comic chorus, adorned as elaborately as tragic forerunners, described the primitive costumes of older comic choruses, then fr.264 was making a deeply Aristophanic point about dramatic history: comedy was once something trivial and shabby, but it now stands on the same high level as its more prestigious generic older brother.13 Pherecrates fr.199 offers a strikingly similar description: ὁ χορὸς δ’ αὐτοῖς εἶχεν δάπιδας ῥυπαρὰς καὶ στρωµατόδεσµα, “their chorus used to have dirty rugs and bed sacks.” In keeping with the self-reflexive poetics of the parabasis, fr.265 was also probably concerned not with older poets generally but with older comic poets in particular.	cache/grbs-16527.pdf	txt/grbs-16527.txt