Menander's Epitrepontes and the Festival of the Tauropolia

This paper started its life, in a different version, as part of my Cambridge doctoral dissertation (Bathrellou 2009). I am deeply indebted to the dissertation's supervisor, the late Professor Colin Austin, as well as to its examiners, Professors Richard Hunter and Christopher Carey, for their criticism and help. I am also grateful to Professors James Diggle, Pat Easterling, and Robin Osborne for corrections and comments on earlier drafts. The paper in its present form has much benefited from the comments and suggestions of Professors Angelos Chaniotis, Timothy Duff, and Mark Griffth, Drs Fotini Hadjittofi, Kyriaki Konstantinidou, Nikolaos Papazarkadas, and Kostas Vlassopoulos, and the anonymous referees of Classical Antiquity. The help of Stamatis Bathrellos has also been invaluable. Any mistakes and obscurities that remain are my own responsibility.