Overview

This book brings together fourteen studies by Alan Sommerstein on Aristophanes and his fellow comic dramatists, some of which have not previously appeared in print. The studies cover almost all the major topics of Sommerstein's work - the nature and functions of comedy in Aristophanes' time, its connections with the society and politics of its day, the question of Aristophanes' own political stances, the light comedy can throw on classical Athenians' perception of basic social divisions (age, gender, citizen/alien, free/slave), comedy's exploitation of the expressive resources of the Greek language, the composition and production history of individual plays, and the history of the genre as a whole.

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Author:   Alan H. Sommerstein (Professor of Greek, University of Nottingham)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.579kg
ISBN:  

9780199554195

ISBN 10:   0199554196
Pages:   358
Publication Date:   05 March 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: The language of Athenian women 2: The naming of women in Greek and Roman comedy 3: The anatomy of euphemism in Aristophanic comedy 4: Talking about laughter in Aristophanes 5: Old Comedians on Old Comedy 6: Slave and citizen in Aristophanic comedy 7: Monsters, ogres and demons in Old Comedy 8: The silence of Strepsiades and the agon of the first Clouds 9: Response to Niall Slater 10: An alternative democracy and an alternative to democracy in Aristophanic comedy 11: Lysistrata the warrior 12: Nudity, obscenity and power: modes of female assertiveness in Aristophanes 13: Kleophon and the restaging of Frogs 14: Platonios diff.com. 29-31 and 46-52 Koster: Aristophanes' Aiolosikon, Kratinos' Odysses and Middle Comedy

Reviews

As one would expect, the scholarship in this volume is of high standard throughout. Sommerstein shows an excellent awareness of the social and political contexts of his subject matter, and his methodology... is exemplary. Andrew Hartwig, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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Alan H. Sommerstein is Professor of Greek at the University of Nottingham.

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