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About 580 BC he transplanted the Megarian Comedy (if the rude ''extempore'' jests and buffoonery deserve the name) into the Attic '' Deme '' of Icaria , the cradle also of Greek Tragedy and the oldest seat of the worship of Dionysus . According to the '' Parian Chronicle '', there appears to have been a competition on this occasion, in which the prize was a basket of Fig s and an Amphora of Wine . Susarion's improvements in his native Farce s did not include a separate Actor or a regular Plot , but probably consisted in substituting metrical compositions for the old extempore effusions of the Chorus . These were intended for recitation, and not committed to writing. But such performances did not suit the taste of the Athenians , and nothing more is heard of them until eighty years after the time of Susarion. Ulrich Von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (in ''Hermes'', ix) considers the so-called Megarian comedy to have been an invention of the Athenians themselves, intended as a satire on Megarian coarseness and vulgarity. The lines attributed to Susarion (in Johann Albrecht Friedrich August Meineke 's ''Poetarum comicorum graecorum fragmenta'') are probably not genuine. FRAGMENT ''the Scholiast on Dionysius of Thrace Greek Grammar has a reference fragment attributed to Susarion'': "Woman's an ill, fellow townsmen, still REFERENCES
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