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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Michael Fontaine (Associate Professor of Classics and Associate Dean, Associate Professor of Classics and Associate Dean, Cornell University) , Adele C. Scafuro (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, Brown University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 24.90cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 17.50cm Weight: 1.474kg ISBN: 9780199743544ISBN 10: 0199743541 Pages: 910 Publication Date: 23 January 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsFontaine (Cornell) and Scafuro (Brown) have created a handbook that is a model of its kind and a mine of information. The essays, written by experts from many countries besides the US and UK, cover all the central topics of ancient comedy, and in a way that makes the volume a true handbook. Readers will appreciate this volume for its clear guidance and abundant information on (among other topics) meter, performance, individual dramatists, the historical development of ancient comedy, the role of comedy in ancient society, and Greek comic papyri discovered in the last 40 years... Highly recommended. --Choice Fontaine (Cornell) and Scafuro (Brown) have created a handbook that is a model of its kind and a mine of information. The essays, written by experts from many countries besides the US and UK, cover all the central topics of ancient comedy, and in a way that makes the volume a true handbook. Readers will appreciate this volume for its clear guidance and abundant information on (among other topics) meter, performance, individual dramatists, the historical development of ancient comedy, the role of comedy in ancient society, and Greek comic papyri discovered in the last 40 years... Highly recommended. --Choice Author InformationMichael Fontaine is Associate Professor of Classics and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Cornell University. He has published widely on Latin literature, especially Roman Comedy, and is the author of Funny Words in Plautine Comedy (Oxford University Press 2010). Adele C. Scafuro is Professor of Classics at Brown University. She has published numerous essays on Greek law, epigraphy, and drama, and is the author of The Forensic Stage. Settling Disputes in Graeco-Roman New Comedy (CUP 1997) and most recently, a translation, Demosthenes. Speeches 39-49 (U. of Texas 2011). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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