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9780199245475

The Language of Greek Comedy

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    9780199245475

  • ISBN10:

    0199245479

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-12-05
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

The contributions to this volume illustrate how the linguistic study of Greek comedy can deepen our knowledge of the intricate connections between the dramatic texts and their literary and socio-cultural environment. Topics discussed include the relationship of comedy and iambus, the world ofDoric comedy in Sicily, figures of speech and obscene vocabulary in Aristophanes, comic elements in tragedy, language and cultural identity in fifth-century Athens, linguistic characterization in Middle Comedy, the textual transmission of New Comedy, and the interaction of language and dramatictechnique in Menander. Research in these topics and in related areas is reviewed in an extensive bibliographical essay.While the main focus is on comedy, the diversity of the approaches adopted (including narratology, pragmatics, lexicology, dialectology, sociolinguistics, and textual criticism) ensures that much of the work applies to different genres and is relevant also to linguists and literary scholars.

Author Biography


Andreas Willi is Research Assistant in Classics, University of Basel, Switzerland

Table of Contents

Abbreviations viii
Notes on Contributors ix
The Language of Greek Comedy: Introduction and Bibliographical Sketch
1(32)
Andreas Willi
Ionian Iambos and Attic Komoidia: Father and Daughter, or Just Cousins?
33(18)
Ewen Bowie
The Language of Doric Comedy
51(34)
Albio C. Cassio
Some Evaluative Terms in Aristophanes
85(14)
Kenneth Dover
Figures of Speech in Aristophanes
99(12)
Simon R. Slings
Languages on Stage: Aristophanic Language, Cultural History, and Athenian Identity
111(40)
Andreas Willi
Comic Elements in Tragic Language: The Case of Aeschylus' Oresteia
151(18)
Alan H. Sommerstein
Mαγειρoσ πoιητη&sigma: Language and Character in Antiphanes
169(22)
Gregory W. Dobrov
Some Orthographical Variants in the Papyri of Later Greek Comedy
191(28)
W. Geoffrey Arnott
Speech within Speech in Menander
219(42)
Rene Nunlist
References 261(40)
Index of Passages 301(28)
Index of Greek 329(6)
General Index 335

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