Nature, Culture, and the Origins of Greek Comedy : A Study of Animal Choruses

by: Rothwell, K.S. (Jr.)

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 This book argues that the animal choruses in Greek comedy of the late fifth century may have been conscious revivals of an earlier tradition of archaic aristocratic symposium. Kenneth Rothwell examines the various appearances of animals in comedy, their function and the tradition that created the genre.

1. Komos, symposium, and performance, 2. Animal choruses: the evidence of vase-painting; 3. Animals and satyrs in classical Greece: an excursus; 4. The literary fragments and Aristophanes; Knights, Wasps, and Frogs; 5. Aristophanes' Birds and the rise of civilization; Conclusions; Appendix A: testimonia and fragments of lost comedies; Appendix B: miscellaneous depictions of animals costumes.

Nature, Culture, and the Origins of Greek Comedy : A Study of Animal Choruses

by: Rothwell, K.S. (Jr.)

• ISBN-13: 9780521860666 / 978-0-521-86066-6
• ISBN-03: 0521860660 / 0-521-86066-0
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007

Price: 70,76 EURO

1 copy in stock