The Birth of Comedy: Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486-280 - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0801894484 ISBN 13 : 9780801894480

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011

Synopsis

A comprehensive look at all aspects of classical Greek comedy.

Aside from the well-known plays of Aristophanes, many of the comedies of ancient Greece are known only through fragments and references written in Greek. Now a group of distinguished scholars brings these nearly lost works to modern readers with lively English translations of the surviving texts.

The Birth of Comedy brings together a wealth of information on the first three generations of Western comedy. The translations, presented in chronological order, are based on the universally praised scholarly edition in Greek, Poetae Comici Graeci, by R. Kassel and C. A. Austin. Additional chapters contain translations of texts relating to comedy at dramatic festivals, staging, audience, and ancient writers on comedy. The main text is supplemented by an introduction assessing the fragments' contributions to the political, social, and theatrical history of classical Athens and more than forty illustrations of comic scenes, costumes, and masks. A glossary of komoidoumenoi--the ancient word for "people mentioned in comedies"--provides background information on the most notorious comic victims. A full index includes not only authors, play titles, and persons mentioned, but themes from the whole Greek comic sphere (including politics, literature and philosophy, celebrities and social scandals, cookery and wine, sex, and wealth).

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jeffrey Rusten is a professor of classics at Cornell University.

Jeffrey Henderson is the William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Boston University.

David Konstan is a professor of classics at New York University.

Ralph Rosen is the Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities and Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Niall W. Slater is the Dobbs Professor of Latin and Greek at Emory University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801894484
• ISBN 13: 9780801894480
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 816
• Éditeur: Rusten Jeffrey
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible