The Arbitration

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The Arbitration is the conventional English title of Menander’s ancient Greek comedy "Epitrepontes," a play centered on family conflict and legal dispute.

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The Arbitration canonical 2

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Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek comedy ⓘ
stage play ⓘ
associatedWith papyrological discoveries in Egypt ⓘ
author Menander ⓘ
centuryOfComposition 3rd century BC ⓘ
4th century BC ⓘ
conventionalEnglishTitleOf Epitrepontes ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Ancient Greece ⓘ
linked to: Greek Antiquity
discoveredIn Oxyrhynchus papyri ⓘ
linked to: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
featuresCharacter Charisios ⓘ
Habrotonon ⓘ
Onesimos ⓘ
Pamphile ⓘ
Smikrines ⓘ
genre New Comedy ⓘ
hasForm five-act structure ⓘ
hasModernTitleVariant The Arbitration (Epitrepontes) ⓘ
hasMoralFocus reconciliation within marriage ⓘ
social legitimacy of children ⓘ
hasSubject marriage law in classical Athens ⓘ
slavery and social mobility ⓘ
status of women in ancient Greece ⓘ
influenced later Roman comedy ⓘ
literaryMovement Greek New Comedy ⓘ
linked to: New Comedy
literaryTradition Athenian New Comedy ⓘ
linked to: New Comedy
mainTheme family conflict ⓘ
identity recognition ⓘ
legal dispute ⓘ
marital reconciliation ⓘ
originalLanguage Ancient Greek ⓘ
originalTitle Epitrepontes ⓘ
playwright Menander ⓘ
plotElement disputed parentage of a child ⓘ
recognition through tokens of identity ⓘ
use of an arbitration panel to resolve a dispute ⓘ
setting Athens ⓘ
survivingStatus partially fragmentary ⓘ
substantially extant ⓘ
timePeriodOfSetting Hellenistic era ⓘ
usesDramaticDevice eavesdropping ⓘ
misunderstanding ⓘ
recognition scene ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Epitrepontes → titleTranslation → The Arbitration ⓘ
Onesimos → workTitleInEnglish → The Arbitration ⓘ