Broken laughter : select fragments of Greek comedy / edited with introduction, commentary, and translation, S. Douglas Olson.
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, etc., and a complete translation of the...
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| Language: | English Ancient Greek |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Doric comedy
- Attic "old comedy"
- "Middle" and "new comedy"
- The reception of other poetry
- Politics and politicians
- Philosophy and philosophers
- Food and dining
- Wine and symposia
- Women
- Aspects of Daily Life
- Appendix I : epigraphic evidence for the chronology of Attic comedy
- Appendix II : Conspectus numerorum
- Appendix III : the poets
- Appendix IV : translations of the fragments.