Aristophanes the Democrat: The Politics of Satirical Comedy during the Peloponnesian War

Author:   Keith Sidwell (University of Calgary)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781009073202


Pages:   423
Publication Date:   12 August 2021
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Keith Sidwell (University of Calgary)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.586kg
ISBN:  

9781009073202


ISBN 10:   1009073206
Pages:   423
Publication Date:   12 August 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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.

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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).

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