Talking about laughter and other studies in Greek comedy [[electronic resource] /] / Alan H. Sommerstein

• Autore: Sommerstein Alan H
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (358 p.)
• Disciplina: 882.0109
• Soggetto topico: Greek drama (Comedy) - History and criticism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-305) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The language of Athenian women; 2. The naming of women in Greek and Roman comedy; 3. The anatomy of euphemism in Aristophanic comedy; 4. Talking about laughter in Aristophanes; 5. Old Comedians on Old Comedy; 6. Slave and citizen in Aristophanic comedy; 7. Monsters, ogres, and demons in Old Comedy; 8. The silence of Strepsiades and the agon of the first Clouds; 9. Response to Slater, 'Bringing up Father: paideia and ephebeia in the Wasps'; 10. An alternative democracy and an alternative to democracy in Aristophanic comedy; 11. Lysistrata the warrior
• Sommario/riassunto: Fourteen studies, including some previously unpublished, by Alan Sommerstein on Aristophanes and his fellow dramatists. Each chapter deals with its own topic, but between them they build up a multifaceted picture of the dramatist, the genre, and its interactions with the society of classical Athens. - ;This book brings together fourteen studies by Alan Sommerstein on Aristophanes and his fellow comic dramatists, some of which have not previously appeared in print. The studies cover almost all the major topics of Sommerstein's work - the nature and functions of comedy in Aristophanes' time, its
• Titolo autorizzato: Talking about Laughter and other studies in Greek comedy
• ISBN: 0-19-172060-7; 9786612235108; 1-282-23510-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996210911403316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno