Third, S. might investigate further the social context of Greek New Comedy and offer some explanation as to why its audiences were so drawn to the exposition of forensic strategies and scenarios. While one can understand S.'s reluctance to speculate on these matters given our limited information about Hellenistic Athens, her suggestions would be welcome. Indeed, it seems very plausible that court access in Athens was more limited in the Hellenistic period than in the classical period due to the city's changing economic and political circumstances. We should of course be attuned not only to the ways the forensic stage of New Comedy might mirror contemporary reality but also to how it might distort it. It would be unfair to S., however, given how much she has done in this exceptional and far-ranging work to judge her on the basis of questions left unanswered.
Any successful work suggests further lines of inquiry, and that is the case here.