Parody, politics and the populace in Greek old comedy /
This book argues that Old Comedy's parodic and non-parodic engagement with tragedy, satyr play and contemporary lyric is geared to enhancing its own status as the preeminent discourse on Athenian art, politics and society. Donald Sells locates the enduring significance of parody in the specific...
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2019]
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| Series: | Bloomsbury classical studies monographs.
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Table of Contents:
- Mysian Telephus and the Aristophanic brand
- Visualizing the comic
- Members only : satyrism and satire in late fifth-century comedy
- Poetic failure and comic success in Aristophanes' Peace
- Old comedy and lyric poetry
- The feminine mistake: household economy in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae.