Mystery Cults, Theatre and Athenian Politics: A Reading of Euripides' Bacchae and Aristophanes' Frogs 1350187321, 9781350187320

Mystery Cults, Theatre and Athenian Politics: A Reading of Euripides' Bacchae and Aristophanes' Frogs 1350187321, 9781350187320

This new comparative reading of Euripides' Bacchae and Aristophanes' Frogs sets the two plays squarely in thei

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Aristophanes: Frogs

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Aristophanes' Frogs 019532773X, 9780195327731

Aristophanes is widely credited with having elevated the classical art of comedy to the level of legitimacy and recognit

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Euripides: Bacchae 0856686085, 9780856686085

This is a commentary on Bacchae. It takes account of the great amount written on the play since then as well as the disc

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Aristophanes: Frogs 0198147732

Among extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on Classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to

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Euripides' Bacchae: The Play and Its Audience 9004070117, 9789004070110

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Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae: Philosophizing Theatre and the Politics of Perception in Late Fifth-Century Athens 1107040825, 9781107040823

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece Thesmophoriazusae has long been recognized amongst the plays of Old Comedy for its

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Aristophanes and Athenian Society of the Early Fourth Century B.C. 9004070621, 9789004070622

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Spectator Politics: Metatheatre and Performance in Aristophanes 9780812236521, 0812236521

"The quality of scholarship is first-rate; it is clearly and engagingly written and is full of fresh insights into

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Asklepios at Athens : epigraphic and prosopographic essays on the Athenian healing cults 9789050630689, 9050630685

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