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The Birth of Comedy. Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486-280.
Jeffrey S. . Ed(S): Rusten
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Description for The Birth of Comedy. Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486-280.
The Birth of Comedy makes accessible for the first time the rich evidence for all aspects of classical Greek comedy. Editor(s): Rusten, Jeffrey S. Translator(s): Henderson, Jeffrey; Konstan, David; Rosen, Ralph M.; Rusten, Jeffrey S.; Slater, Niall W. Num Pages: 816 pages, 43, 42 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 187 x 260 x 59. Weight in Grams: 1598.
Aside from the well-known plays of Aristophanes, many of the comedies of ancient Greece are known only through fragments and references written in Greek. Now a group of distinguished scholars brings these nearly lost works to modern readers with lively English translations of the surviving texts. The Birth of Comedy brings together a wealth of information on the first three generations of Western comedy. The translations, presented in chronological order, are based on the universally praised scholarly edition in Greek, Poetae Comici Graeci, by R. Kassel and C. A. Austin. Additional chapters contain translations of texts relating to comedy ... Read more
Aside from the well-known plays of Aristophanes, many of the comedies of ancient Greece are known only through fragments and references written in Greek. Now a group of distinguished scholars brings these nearly lost works to modern readers with lively English translations of the surviving texts. The Birth of Comedy brings together a wealth of information on the first three generations of Western comedy. The translations, presented in chronological order, are based on the universally praised scholarly edition in Greek, Poetae Comici Graeci, by R. Kassel and C. A. Austin. Additional chapters contain translations of texts relating to comedy ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
816
Condition
New
Number of Pages
816
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801894480
SKU
V9780801894480
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99-35
About Jeffrey S. . Ed(S): Rusten
Jeffrey Rusten is a professor of classics at Cornell University. Jeffrey Henderson is the William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Boston University. David Konstan is a professor of classics at New York University. Ralph Rosen is the Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities and Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Niall W. Slater is the ... Read more
Reviews for The Birth of Comedy. Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486-280.
A unique resource for the serious study of comedy, this book is vast in scope and of incalculable value for those who do not read Greek. Choice This book is a landmark, which has come to stay. Bryn Mawr Classical Review This volume, which is aimed at general readers... and whose generous dimensions rival the size of an Oxford Classical ... Read more