Aristophanes' Wasps

Author:   Kenneth Rothwell (professor, professor, UMASS Boston)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780190907402


Pages:   262
Publication Date:   20 June 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Kenneth Rothwell (professor, professor, UMASS Boston)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 19.60cm
Weight:   0.748kg
ISBN:  

9780190907402


ISBN 10:   0190907401
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   20 June 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents Map: Greece and Attica Acknowledgements Introduction An Overview of Wasps Cleon, Politics, and the Peloponnesian War in 422 B.C. The Jury System of the Athenian Democracy Philocleon the Juror The Chorus of Wasps Social Values in Wasps The Culture of Symposium Society The Comedy of Wasps The Festivals of Dionysus at Athens and Aristophanic Comedy Wasps in Aristophanes' Career The Structure of Wasps Stage, Costume and Performance The Language of Aristophanes Word Roots Abbreviations Commentary Appendix A: A Glossary of Grammatical and Rhetorical Terms Appendix B: Legal Procedure and Language in Classical Athens and Wasps Appendix C: The Structure and Meter of Wasps Appendix D: Scansion of Meters in Wasps Further Reading Vocabulary

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Kenneth S. Rothwell, Jr., is Professor and Chair of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the author of Politics and Persuasion in Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae (1990), Nature, Culture and the Origins of Greek Comedy: A Study of Animal Choruses (2007), and translator of Federico Borromeo's De pictura sacra and Musaeum, I Tatti Renaissance Library (with Pamela M. Jones, 2010).

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