In the theatre of ancient Greece, the ' () was one of three stock characters in comedy, corresponding to the English buffoon. The ' is marked by his wit, his crudity of language, and his frequent non-illusory audience address.
In modern Greek, the word refers to a foul-mouthed person.
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- Carlson, Marvin. 1993. Theories of the Theatre: A Historical and Critical Survey from the Greeks to the Present. Expanded ed. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
- Frye, Northrop. 1957. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. London: Penguin, 1990.
- Janko, Richard, trans. 1987. Poetics with Tractatus Coislinianus, Reconstruction of Poetics II and the Fragments of the On Poets. By Aristotle. Cambridge: Hackett.