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Record Nr.

UNISA996210676103316

Autore

Storey Ian Christopher

Titolo

Eupolis, poet of old comedy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2003

ISBN

0-19-171742-8

0-19-925992-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 441 p.) : ill., maps

Disciplina

882.01

Soggetti

Greek drama (Comedy) - History and criticism - Theory, etc - Greece

Dramatists, Greek

Lost literature

Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures

Languages & Literatures

Athens (Greece) Intellectual life

Athens (Greece) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Eupolis in antiquity -- Eupolis' dates and career -- The comedies of Eupolis -- The 'war' between the poets -- Eupolis and comedy.

Sommario/riassunto

Eupolis was one of the most important of Aristophanes' rivals. He wrote the same sort of topical and often indecent comedy as the surviving plays of Aristophanes. This book provides a translation of all the remaining fragments of his work and an essay on each lost play.