The bomochus, eiron, and (*) alazon recurred in writings from this genre.
A writing in this literary genre ends with a crowd of people asking the title character for pots, pans, tables, and tripods, as he constantly asks "Who would help me stand up?" A work in this genre describes a sumptuous dish with the longest word in the history of literature. Divinities played a bigger role in the phlyax style in this genre, popular in Magna Graecia. The Deipnosophistae by Athenaeus of Naucratis preserves fragments of writings by Alexis and Antiphanes in this literary genre. The bomochus, eiron, and (*) alazon recurred in writings from this genre. By saving the title character after his accidental fall into a well, Sostratos persuades Knemon to grant his daughter's hand in marriage in Dyskolos by Menander, the completest example of the "New" period of this genre. A writer in this genre compared Athenian jurors to wasps and wrote about ladies who try to end the Peloponnesian War by withholding sex from their husbands. For 10 points, name this Ancient Greek theatrical genre represented by the plays of Aristophanes.
A writing in this literary genre ends with a crowd of people asking the title character for pots, pans, tables, and tripods, as he constantly asks "Who would help me stand up?"
ancient Greek comedy [accept Old Comedy, Middle Comedy, New Comedy, or really any kind of comedy]