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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: 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: 9780190907402ISBN 10: 0190907401 Pages: 262 Publication Date: 20 June 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsTable 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 VocabularyReviewsAuthor InformationKenneth 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |