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Insults in classical Athens /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kamen, Deborah (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2020]
Series:Wisconsin studies in classics.
Subjects:
Invective > Greece > Athens > History.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Athens (Greece) > Social conditions.
Greece > Social conditions > To 146 B.C.
Table of Contents:
  • Skōmmata and aischrologia: benign insults
  • Kōmōidein and skōptein: mockery in Old Comedy
  • Diabolē and loidoria: invective in Attic oratory
  • Kakēgoria and aporrhēta: forbidden verbal abuse
  • Hubris: affronts to honor.