Broken Laughter: Select Fragments of Greek Comedy
S. Douglas Olson
A collection of over 200 of the most interesting and important fragments of Greek comedy, accompanied by a commentary; an extensive introduction discussing the history of comic genre; a series of appendixes on the individual poets, the inscriptional evidence, and the like; and a complete translation of the fragments. Individual sections illustrate the earliest Greek comedy from Syracuse; the characteristic features of Athenian `Old', `Middle', and `New Comedy'; the comic presentation of politicians, philosophers, and women; the comic reception of other poetry; and many aspects of daily life, including dining and symposia.
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Rok:
2007
Wydawnictwo:
Oxford University Press
Język:
english
Strony:
400
ISBN 10:
142949185X
ISBN 13:
9781429491853
Plik:
PDF, 1.73 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2007