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Publication Date: August 1, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0198721560 | ISBN-13: 978-0198721567

Aristophanes is the only author of Greek Attic comedy whose work survives in any form beyond fragments. His eleven surviving comedies reflect the spirit of Athens in the golden age and its unique freedom of speech. This anthology brings together all the most important contributions to the study of Aristophanes; it addresses a range of subjects from the classic question of Aristophanes' relationship to contemporary politics to more modern issues such as performance context, the interaction between fifth century comedy and tragedy, and gender

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Erich Segal formerly Professor of Classics, Yale University

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Hardcover: 360 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (August 1, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0198721560
ISBN-13: 978-0198721567
Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.7 x 1 inches
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This is an excellent compilation of essays, many of them written with a great deal of skill in English prose. More importantly, of course, Segal does an excellent job of offering a very helpful introduction and glossary. This feels like the perfect introduction to relevant topics and problems in the study of Aristophanes.

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essay for scholarly purposes, imagist characters, imagist representation, comic choruses, comic festivals, anapaestic tetrameters, kaloi kagathoi, comic ridicule, hostage scene, comic competition, comic hero, old comedy, dramatic illusion, comic poets, new politicians, private peace, political comedy, new comedy

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This book cites 88 books:

Aristophanic Comedy by K. J. Dover on 19 pages
Aristophanes and the Comic Hero (Martin Classical Lectures) by Cedric H. Whitman on 15 pages
The Origins of the Peloponnesian War by G. E. M. de Ste. Croix on 11 pages
New Comedy: Women in Power , Wealth , The Malcontent , The Woman from Samos (Ekklesiazousai/Wealth/the Malcontent/the Woman from Samos/4 Plays in 1 Volume) by Aristophanes on 9 pages
Greek Tragedy (Drama Classics) by Sophocles Sophocles on 4 pages

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