The court of comedy: Aristophanes, rhetoric, and democracy in fifth-century Athens/

Main Author: Major, Wilfred E., 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c2013
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Table of Contents:
  • Sicilian pioneers of comedy and rhetoric and their transmission to Athens
  • Old comedy and proto-rhetoric in Athens before 425 B.C.E. : the age of Pericles
  • The young comic playwrights attack, 425-421 B.C.E.
  • The years of confidence, 421-414 B.C.E.
  • Crawling from the wreckage, 411 B.C.E.
  • Tongues, Frogs, and the last stand.