Keith Sidwell

Aristophanes the Democrat

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that writers of Old Comedy belonged to recognisable political circles and used their comedy to disparage their political enemies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 611g
• ISBN-13: 9781009073202
• ISBN-10: 1009073206
• Artikelnr.: 61674010

Autorenporträt

Keith Sidwell is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies, University of Calgary. He has written on Greek drama, later Greek literature - including most recently Lucian: Chattering Courtesans and Other Sardonic Sketches (2004) - and on Neo-Latin writing and is a co-author of the Reading Greek and Reading Latin series, and author of Reading Medieval Latin (1995).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Setting the Stage: 1. Getting to grips with the politics of Old Comedy
2. Metacomedy and politics
3. Metacomedy and caricature
Part II. The Poets' War: 4. Acharnians
5. Metacomedy, caricature and politics from Knights to Peace
6. Metacomedy, caricature and politics from Autolycus to Frogs
Conclusions and consequences: Appendix 1. The view from the Theatron
Appendix 2. Metacomedy and caricature in the surviving fourth century plays of Aristophanes
Appendix 3. Timeline and proposed relationships between comedies
Bibliography.