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The Birth of Comedy: Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486-280
Jeffrey Rusten
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Description for The Birth of Comedy: Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486-280
Paperback. A full index includes not only authors, play titles, and persons mentioned, but themes from the whole Greek comic sphere (including politics, literature and philosophy, celebrities and social scandals, cookery and wine, sex, and wealth). Editor(s): Rusten, Jeffrey S. Translator(s): Henderson, Jeffrey; Konstan, David; Rosen, Ralph M.; Rusten, Jeffrey S.; Slater, Niall W. Num Pages: 816 pages, 43, 42 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; DSG; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 254 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1274.
Aside from the well-known plays of Aristophanes, many of the comedies of ancient Greece are known only through fragments and references written in Greek. Now a group of distinguished scholars brings these nearly lost works to modern readers with lively English translations of the surviving texts. The Birth of Comedy brings together a wealth of information on the first three generations of Western comedy. The translations, presented in chronological order, are based on the universally praised scholarly edition in Greek, Poetae Comici Graeci, by R. Kassel and C. A. Austin. Additional chapters contain translations of texts ... Read more
Aside from the well-known plays of Aristophanes, many of the comedies of ancient Greece are known only through fragments and references written in Greek. Now a group of distinguished scholars brings these nearly lost works to modern readers with lively English translations of the surviving texts. The Birth of Comedy brings together a wealth of information on the first three generations of Western comedy. The translations, presented in chronological order, are based on the universally praised scholarly edition in Greek, Poetae Comici Graeci, by R. Kassel and C. A. Austin. Additional chapters contain translations of texts ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
1274g
Number of Pages
816
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421421186
SKU
V9781421421186
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About Jeffrey Rusten
Jeffrey Rusten is a professor of classics at Cornell University. Jeffrey Henderson is the William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Boston University. David Konstan is a professor of classics at New York University. Ralph Rosen is the Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities and Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Niall W. Slater is the ... Read more
Reviews for The Birth of Comedy: Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486-280
A unique resource for the serious study of comedy, this book is vast in scope and of incalculable value for those who do not read Greek.
Choice
This book is a landmark, which has come to stay.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
This volume, which is aimed at general readers... and whose generous dimensions rival the size ... Read more
Choice
This book is a landmark, which has come to stay.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
This volume, which is aimed at general readers... and whose generous dimensions rival the size ... Read more