The city as comedy : society and representation in Athenian drama / edited by Gregory W. Dobrov.

Other author Dobrov, Gregory W., 1957-
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, ©1997.
Descriptionxix, 355 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
Greek drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.
Literature and society--Greece. --Athens.
City and town life in literature.
Cities and towns in literature.
Mimesis in literature.
Athens (Greece)--In literature.

Contents Greek polis and its negations : versions of utopia in Aristophanes' Birds / David Konstan -- Utopianism and the sophistic city in Aristophanes / Thomas K. Hubbard -- Good intentions and the ai pasai polsis [alpha iota - pi alpha sigma alpha iota - pi omicron lambda sigma iota sigma] / F.E. Romer -- Performing the city in Birds / Niall W. Slater -- Language, fiction, and utopia / Gregory W. Dubrov -- Mass versus elite and the comic heroism of Peisetairos / Jeffrey Henderson -- Gendered polis in Eupolis' Cities / Ralph M. Rosen -- Tyranny of roles : playacting and privilege in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae / Elizabeth Bobrick -- Oikos and Agora : mapping the polis in Aristophanes' Wasps / Gregory Crane -- Aristophanes and the discourse of politics / Malcolm Heath -- Comic cuisine : food and eating in the comic polis / John Wilkins -- Polis of Athens in middle comedy / Heinz-Günther Nesselrath -- Odoz e ez korakaz [omicron delta omicron zeta - eta - epsilon zeta - kappa omicron rho alpha kappa alpha zeta] : polis and Oikoumenê in Menander / Timothy P. Hofmeister.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 97009888
ISBN0807823376 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807846457 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PA3875.A8 D63 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold