The Bottle
work by Cratinus
Also known as: “Putine”
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- In Cratinus
In the Putine (The Bottle), which defeated Aristophanes’ Clouds for the first prize at the Athenian dramatic contest in 423, Cratinus good-humouredly exploited his own drunkenness (caricatured the previous year in Aristophanes’ Knights), showing Comoedia (his wife) complaining of his liaison with the idle mistress Methe (“Drunkenness”).
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