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{{Short description|Comic play by Menander}}
[[File:Sikyon ancient theatre.jpg|thumb|right|The ancient theatre of Sikyon]]
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'''''Sikyonios''''' or '''''Sikyonioi''''' ({{lang-el|
==Plot==
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[[File:Relief with Menander and New Comedy Masks - Princeton Art Museum.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Roman, [[Roman Republic|Republican]] or [[Roman Empire|Early Imperial]], ''Relief of a seated poet (Menander) with masks of New Comedy'', 1st century B.C. – early 1st century A.D., [[Princeton University Art Museum]]]]
''Sikyionioi'' takes place in a street in [[Attica]], probably in the demos of [[Eleusis]],
In the [[prologue]] speech the divinity has exposed how twelve years
The action probably started with a conversation between Theron and his love interest Malthake, during which the audience learns that Theron is the parasite of Stratophanes, a [[mercenary soldier]] who has lately arrived from a successful campaign in Asia Minor. In the first
When the girl takes refuge in a temple at [[Eleusis]], the old slave in her company claims that she is an Athenian, and a pale beardless young man offers himself as her protector. But then Stratophanes steps up to declare that she belonged to his family. He
Toward the end of act three, however, Stratophanes' slave Pyrrhias
Stratophanes then instructs Theron with the search and the parasite tries to cheat him by paying poor Kichesias to act as her father. At first Kichesias rejects the offer, but then
In act five Stratophanes confronts Smikrines and his pale son Moschion, who has been his rival with the girl, but at the end of their quarrel, when the proof for his Athenian birth is produced, the family recognizes that he is actually
== Notes ==
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==References==
* [http://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/viewFile/11481/4141 Hugh Lloyd-Jones, ''Menander's Sikyonios''
* [http://www.loebclassics.com/view/menander_comic_poet-sikyonioi_sicyonians/2000/pb_LCL460.205.xml Menander, ''Sikyonioi''] Loeb Classical Library (2000)
* ''Ménandre, Les Sicyoniens'', Les Belles Lettres (2009)
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