Old Comedy and the Iambographic Tradition 1555403042, 9781555403041

The Agon of the Old Comedy 9781463221560

Milton W. Humphreys explores the development of the comic agon – that is, the contest-in-words that is the heart of Athe

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The Agon of the Old Comedy 9781463221560

Milton W. Humphreys explores the development of the comic agon – that is, the contest-in-words that is the heart of Athe

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The Dramatic Satura and the Old Comedy at Rome 9781463221829

Hendrickson suggests that Roman drama was a cross-pollination of Greek comedy with Roman satire.

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Old Masters: A Comedy 9780226074344

In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese

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The Dramatic Satura and the Old Comedy at Rome 9781463221829

Hendrickson suggests that Roman drama was a cross-pollination of Greek comedy with Roman satire.

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The Grand Old Man and the Great Tradition 9780472901616

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Parody, Politics and the Populace in Greek Old Comedy 9781350060517, 9781350060548, 9781350060524

This book argues that Old Comedy’s parodic and non-parodic engagement with tragedy, satyr play, and contemporary lyric i

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The Comedian as Critic: Greek Old Comedy and Poetics 9781472555793, 9781780930299

Some of the best evidence for the early development of literary criticism before Plato and Aristotle comes from Athenian

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Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre 9781802700251

An up-to-the-minute survey of the importance of metrical analysis to textual criticism in Old English studies from inter

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Muthos: Aristotle's Concept of Narrative and the Fragments of Old Comedy 9783949189036, 9783949189043, 3949189033

This book presents a new analysis of Aristotle’s concept of narrative in the Poetics. Arguing that the term muthos in th

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