Kenneth. S. Rothwell Jr.

Nature, Culture, and the Origins of Greek Comedy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Argues that the animal choruses in Greek comedy of the late fifth century may have been conscious revivals of an earlier tradition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9780521860666
• ISBN-10: 0521860660
• Artikelnr.: 22571105

Autorenporträt

Kenneth S. Rothwell, Jr is associate professor of classics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of Politics and Persuasion in Aristophanes' 'Ecclesiazusae'.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Komos, symposium, and performance, 2. Animal choruses: the evidence of vase-painting
3. Animals and satyrs in classical Greece: an excursus
4. The literary fragments and Aristophanes
Knights, Wasps, and Frogs
5. Aristophanes' Birds and the rise of civilization
Conclusions
Appendix A: testimonia and fragments of lost comedies
Appendix B: miscellaneous depictions of animals costumes.