The long shadow of fame. Quotations from Epicharmus in works of the Imperial Period

Abstract

While the presence of Epicharmus in the Sicilian and Attic culture of the Classical period has been the subject of discussion for more than a century, giving rise to many publications, there are no global studies addressing knowledge of the poet in the Imperial period. In this essay, I offer a review of the explicit mentions of Epicharmus in Greek writers between the 1st and 5th century AD.