Birth of Comedy

Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486-280

Autor: Jeffrey Rusten

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Editura: Johns Hopkins University Press

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Aside from the well-known plays of Aristophanes, many of the comedies of ancient Greece are known on...

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Autor

Jeffrey Rusten

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2011

Pagini

816

EAN

9780801894480

ISBN

0801894484

Enbook ID

04710308

Editura

Johns Hopkins University Press

Greutate

1590

Dimensiuni

260 x 187 x 59

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Aside from the well-known plays of Aristophanes, many of the comedies of ancient Greece are known only through fragments and references written in Greek. Now a group of distinguished scholars brings these nearly lost works to modern readers with lively English translations of the surviving texts. The Birth of Comedy brings together a wealth of information on the first three generations of Western comedy. The selection of translations is based on the universally praised scholarly edition in Greek, Poetae Comici Graeci, by R. Kassel and C. A. Austin. Authors are presented in chronological order. Additional chapters contain translations of texts relating to comedy at dramatic festivals, staging, audience, and ancient writers on comedy. The book includes more than forty illustrations of comic scenes, costumes, and masks. The introduction assesses the fragments' contributions to the political, social, and theatrical history of classical Athens. A glossary of komoidoumenoi-the ancient word for "people mentioned in comedies"-provides background information on the most notorious comic victims. A full index includes not only authors, play titles, and persons mentioned, but themes from the whole Greek comic sphere (including politics, literature and philosophy, celebrities and social scandals, cookery and wine, sex, and wealth). The Birth of Comedy makes accessible for the first time the rich evidence for all aspects of classical Greek comedy.

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Birth of Comedy

Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486-280

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