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Dialect in Aristophanes
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Stephen Colvin
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Oxford Classical Monographs

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Did the Greeks find it amusing, irritating or threatening when they heard another Greek speaking in a different dialect? Were they rude or tolerant when they he
The Language of Greek Comedy
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: Andreas Willi
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-10-03 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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The contributions to this volume illustrate how the linguistic study of Greek comedy can deepen our knowledge of the intricate connections between the dramatic
Rhetoric, Comedy, and the Violence of Language in Aristophanes' Clouds
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Daphne Elizabeth O'Regan
Categories: Comedy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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This is an intelligent and unusually thought-provoking reading of Aristophanes' Clouds. O'Regan focuses on logos, or the power of argument, and its effects, and
The Languages of Aristophanes
Language: en
Pages: 376
Authors: Andreas Willi
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Oxford Classical Monographs

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By examining linguistic variation in Aristophanic comedy, Andreas Willi opens up a new perspective on intra-dialectal diversity in Classical Attic Greek. A repr
Socrates and Aristophanes
Language: en
Pages: 330
Authors: Leo Strauss
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In one of his last books, Socrates and Aristophanes, Leo Strauss's examines the confrontation between Socrates and Aristophanes in Aristophanes' comedies. Looki