Author: John Maxwell EdmondsPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : Greek drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
The Fragments of Attic Comedy
Author: John Maxwell EdmondsPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : Greek drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
The Fragments of Attic Comedy
Author: John M. EdmondsPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
The Fragments of "Attic Comedy" After Meineke, Bergk, and Kock
Author: John Maxwell EdmondsPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : Greek drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The Fragments of Attic Comedy
Author: Menander, John Maxwell EdmondsPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
The Fragments of Attic Comedy After Meineke, Bergk, and Kock
Author: J M EdmondsPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004604111
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
The Fragments of Attic Comedy After Meineke, Bergk, and Kock
Author: John Maxwell EdmondsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek drama
Languages : el
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Maculate Muse
Author: Jeffrey HendersonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195361997
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The pervasive and unrestrained use of obscenity has long been acknowledged as a major feature of fifth-century Attic Comedy; no other Western art form relies so heavily on the sexual and scatological dimensions of language. This acclaimed book, now in a new edition, offers both a comprehensive discussion of the dynamics of Greek obscenity and a detailed commentary on the terminology itself. After contrasting the peculiar characteristics of the Greek notion of obscenity to modern-day ideas, Henderson discusses obscenity's role in the development of Attic Comedy, its historical origins, varieties, and dramatic function. His analysis of obscene terminology sheds new light on Greek culture, and his discussion of Greek homosexuality offers a refreshing corrective to the idealized Platonic view. He also looks in detail at the part obscenity plays in each of Aristophanes' eleven surviving plays. The latter part of the book identifies all the obscene terminology found in the extant examples of Attic Comedy, both complete plays and fragments. Although these terminological entries are arranged in numbered paragraphs resembling a glossary, they can also be read as independent essays on the various aspects of comic obscenity. Terms are explained as they occur in each individual context and in relation to typologically similar terminology. With newly corrected and updated philological material, this second edition of Maculate Muse will serve as an invaluable reference work for the study of Greek drama.
The Fragments of Attic Comedy After Meineke, Bergk, and Kock
Author: J M EdmondsPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004608850
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
Broken Laughter
Author: S. Douglas OlsonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191569445
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
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.
Myth-Making in Aristophanes Innovation and Evolution in Attic Comedy
Author: Effie ZagariPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1036411133
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This book focuses on the development of Attic comedy as it is evinced in four fragmentary plays by Aristophanes: Polyidus, Daedalus, Aeolosicon, and Cocalus. The significance of these plays lies in the fact that they present characteristics which are not prominent in the extant plays. They are mythological comedies that Aristophanes might have composed as parodies of tragedies. The four dramas exhibit elements largely present in Middle and New Comedy, such as the use and re-use of myths, the production of large-scale burlesque, domestic plots, unfolded outside Attica. This is a book directed to the wider audience, to all enthusiasts of Classics. It facilitates the understanding of an aspect of Aristophanes’ work, discernible only within his fragmentary dramas. This study thus revisits Old Comedy and enriches the scholarship with new insights and new discoveries regarding Aristophanes, his literary interactions, as well as his innovating and influential work.