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The city as comedy : society and representation in Athenian drama

Author: Gregory W Dobrov
Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, ©1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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City as comedy.
Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c1997
(OCoLC)606958615
Online version:
City as comedy.
Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c1997
(OCoLC)607636108
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Gregory W Dobrov
ISBN: 0807823376 9780807823378 0807846457 9780807846452
OCLC Number: 36509660
Description: xix, 355 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
Responsibility: edited by Gregory W. Dobrov.

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