Fragments on Love and Feasting

Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Ἔρωτος καὶ Εὐωχίας

The Fragments on Love and Feasting is a lost comedy by the obscure Athenian comic poet Timotheus, known only by its title and a handful of surviving lines. No details of its plot, characters, or specific dramatic action are preserved. The author himself is a figure of uncertain date, making it impossible to classify the work definitively within the traditional periods of Old, Middle, or New Comedy. The title suggests it treated conventional comic themes of erotic pursuit and symposiac revelry, common engines of plot in the genre. The work survives only in a few fragmentary passages, with no known manuscript tradition. Its primary significance lies as a testament to the vast number of comedies now lost and the obscurity of many ancient dramatists, while its thematic focus on love and feasting aligns with the standard repertoire of Greek comic theater.