The Birth of Comedy - Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486-280 (Paperback)

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 relating to comedy at dramatic festivals, staging, audience, and ancient writers on comedy. The main text is supplemented by an introduction assessing the fragments' contributions to the political, social, and theatrical history of classical Athens and more than forty illustrations of comic scenes, costumes, and masks. A glossary of komoidoumenoi-the ancient word for "people mentioned in comedies"-provides background information on the most notorious comic victims. 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).

General

Imprint:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2017
First published:	2011
Editors:	Jeffrey Rusten
Translators:	Jeffrey Henderson • David Konstan • Ralph Rosen (Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities) • Jeffrey Rusten • Niall W. Slater
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 53mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	816
ISBN-13:	978-1-4214-2118-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
LSN:	1-4214-2118-6
Barcode:	9781421421186

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