Alan H Sommerstein

Talking about Laughter

And Other Studies in Greek Comedy

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Produktbeschreibung

Fourteen studies, including some previously unpublished, by Alan Sommerstein on Aristophanes and his fellow dramatists.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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 151mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 664g
• ISBN-13: 9780199554195
• ISBN-10: 0199554196
• Artikelnr.: 25557625

Autorenporträt

Alan H. Sommerstein is Professor of Greek at the University of Nottingham.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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 Niall Slater
* 10: An alternative democracy and an alternative to democracy in
Aristophanic comedy
* 11: Lysistrata the warrior
* 12: Nudity, obscenity and power: modes of female assertiveness in
Aristophanes
* 13: Kleophon and the restaging of Frogs
* 14: Platonios diff.com. 29-31 and 46-52 Koster: Aristophanes'
Aiolosikon, Kratinos' Odyssês and Middle Comedy