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Cratinus, one of the great lost poets of fifth-century Athenian comedy and a canonical author of the classical world, had a formative influence on the comic genre, including Aristophanes himself. In what is the first major monograph in the best part of a century devoted to this author, Emmanuela Bak...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bakola, Emmanuela
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Cratinus, > -approximately 420 B.C. > Criticism and interpretation.
Cratinus, > -approximately 420 B.C.
Greek drama (Comedy) > History and criticism.
Comédie grecque > Histoire et critique.
DRAMA > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Greek drama (Comedy)
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Poetic Persona and Poetic Voice in Cratinus' Comedy
  • 2. Cratinus and the Satyr Play
  • 3. Cratinus and Tragedy
  • 4. Myth, Politics, and Drama: Elements of Plot-Composition in the Comedy of Cratinus
  • 5. Production and Imagination
  • Appendix 1. The Parabasis Proper of Cratinus' Dionysalexandros (POxy 663, ll. 6-9)
  • Appendix 2. The Date of the Accusations against Phidias and his Trial
  • Appendix 3. Papyrus fragments of Plutoi
  • Appendix 4. Hypothesis to Dionysalexandros (POxy 663).