Balladeer’s Blog takes another look at the surviving fragments of an ancient Greek comedian, in this case Crates. CRATES – Crates’ career spanned from approximately the 450s B.C. to the 430s B.C. We have fragments from nine or ten comedies from an unknown total output. From other sources we know that comedies as stage productions began sometime around 500 B.C. […]

ANCIENT GREEK COMEDIES: CRATES