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Cambridge University Press - The Cambridge Companion To Greek Comedy - Paperback
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Description: Greek comedy flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC both in and beyond Athens. Aristophanes and Menander are the best - known writers whose work is in part extant but many other dramatists are known from surviving fragments of their plays. This sophisticated but accessible introduction explores the genre as a whole integrating literary questions (such as characterisation dramatic technique or diction) with contextual ones (for example audience response festival context interface with ritual or political frames). In addition it also discusses relevant historical issues (political socio - economic and legal) as well as the artistic and archaeological evidence. The result provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature which will be of help to students at all levels and from a variety of disciplines but will also provide stimulus for further research.
Title: The Cambridge Companion To Greek Comedy
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9780521747400
Pages: 518 Pages, 4 Tables, Black And White; 1 Maps; 24 Halftones, Unspecified
Publication Date: 6/12/2014
Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
Category: Classical History / Classical Civilisation
Description: Greek comedy flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC both in and beyond Athens. Aristophanes and Menander are the best - known writers whose work is in part extant but many other dramatists are known from surviving fragments of their plays. This sophisticated but accessible introduction explores the genre as a whole integrating literary questions (such as characterisation dramatic technique or diction) with contextual ones (for example audience response festival context interface with ritual or political frames). In addition it also discusses relevant historical issues (political socio - economic and legal) as well as the artistic and archaeological evidence. The result provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature which will be of help to students at all levels and from a variety of disciplines but will also provide stimulus for further research.
Title: The Cambridge Companion To Greek Comedy
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9780521747400
Pages: 518 Pages, 4 Tables, Black And White; 1 Maps; 24 Halftones, Unspecified
Publication Date: 6/12/2014
Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
Category: Classical History / Classical Civilisation
