The language of Greek comedy / edited by Andreas Willi.

Other author Willi, Andreas.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Descriptionx, 343 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Greek drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.
Language and culture--Greece.
Greek language--Style.

Contents The language of Greek comedy: introduction and bibliographic sketch / Andreas Willi -- Ionian Iambos and Attic Komoidia: father and daughter, or just cousins? / Ewen Bowie -- The language of Doric comedy / Albio C. Cassio -- Some evaluative terms in Aristophanes / Kenneth Dover -- Figures of speech in Aristophanes / Simon R. Slings -- Languages on stage: Aristophanic language, cultural history, and Athenian identity / Andreas Willi -- Comic elements in tragic language: the case of Aeschylus' Oresteia / Alan H. Sommerstein -- Mageiros Poiētēs: language and character in Antiphanes / Gregory W. Dobrov -- Some orthographical variants in the papyri of later Greek comedy / W. Geoffrey Arnott -- Speech within speech in Menander / René Nünlist.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [261]-299) and indexes.
LCCN 2002019043
ISBN0199245479 (acid-free paper)