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Γρ⋯λλος, Lat. gryllus, is the ancient technical term for a kind of caricature (iocosa tabella) as opposed to serious painting or drawing. No monument of art to which this term could be applied with any probability was known up to a few years ago. But in the last number of the Classical Review Professor D. L. Page has pointed out that in an illustrated literary papyrus published recently the word γρ⋯λλῳ must refer to the drawings transmitted in that same text. With this I agree; and I should like to put before the readers of Greece & Rome the main facts about that strange document as I now see them.
page 171 note 1 Pliny, , H.N. xxxv. 114Google Scholar; Philodemos, , Rhet. ii. 297Google Scholar Sudhaus. According to Pliny, Antiphilos, a famous painter of c. 350 b.c., was believed to have introduced this style. Cf. Pfuhl, E., Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen (München, 1923)Google Scholar, § 844, and Latte, K., Glotta, xxxv (1935), 190 f.Google Scholar
page 171 note 2 N.S. vii (1957), 189–91 (referred to in this article as ‘Page’).
page 171 note 3 Lobel, E. and Roberts, C. H., Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part XXII (London, 1954)Google Scholar, No. 2331 with PI. XI. I thank Mr. C. H. Roberts for showing the original to me and arranging for the plate to be made for this article.
page 171 note 4 He may represent the character whom Pliny (see above, n. 1) names Gryllus.
page 171 note 5 Cf. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, U., Griechische Verskunst (Berlin, 1921), 137 ff.Google Scholar, especially 150 f. on a papyrus (contemporary with the γρ⋯λλος papyrus) reprinted by Page, D. L., Greek Literary Papyri (London, 1942), No. 96.Google Scholar
page 172 note 1 I am indebted to Mr. E. A. Barber for the contributions which bear his name.