The Court of Comedy : Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens /

In this book, the author analyzes how writers of comedy in Classical Greece satirized the emerging art of rhetoric and its role in political life. In the fifth century BCE, the development of rhetoric proceeded hand in hand with the growth of democracy both on Sicily and at Athens. In turn, comic pl...

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1. Verfasser: Major, Wilfred E., 1967-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2013]
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Sicilian pioneers of comedy and rhetoric and their transmission to Athens
  • Old comedy and proto-rhetoric in Athens before 425 B.C.E. : the age of Pericles
  • The young comic playwrights attack, 425-421 B.C.E.
  • The years of confidence, 421-414 B.C.E.
  • Crawling from the wreckage, 411 B.C.E.
  • Tongues, frogs, and the last stand.