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Insults in Classical Athens

by: Kamen, D.

Price: 29,00 EURO

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Category: New Books
Code: 31541
ISBN-13: 9780299328047 / 978-0-299-32804-7
ISBN-10: 029932804X / 0-299-32804-X
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
Publication Date: 2020
Publication Place: Madison
Binding: Paper
Pages: 288
Book Condition: New
Comments: Wisconsin Studies in Classics

Insults in classical Athens

Author:Deborah Kamen 

Summary:Scholarly investigations of the rich field of verbal and extraverbal Athenian insults have typically been undertaken piecemeal. Deborah Kamen provides an overview of this vast terrain and synthesizes the rules, content, functions, and consequences of insulting fellow Athenians.

Series:
Wisconsin studies in classics

xv, 258 pages ; 24 cm.

Contents:
Skōmmata and aischrologia: benign insults
Kōmōidein and skōptein: mockery in Old Comedy
Diabolē and loidoria: invective in Attic oratory
Kakēgoria and aporrhēta: forbidden verbal abuse
Hubris: affronts to honor


Subjects:
Athens (Greece) Social conditions
Greece
Greece Athens
Greece Social conditions To 146 B.C
Grèce Conditions sociales Jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C
History
Invective
Invective Greece Athens History
Invectives Grèce Athènes Histoire
Rhetoric, Ancient
Rhétorique ancienne
Social conditions
To 146 B.C

 
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