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Mimiambs

Mimiamboi

Short verse mimes in a deliberately archaic meter dramatize scenes of ordinary urban life, a jealous brothel-keeper, a shoe shop, a schoolboy's beating, recovered on a papyrus in 1891 after being almost entirely lost since antiquity.

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