Abusive mouths in classical Athens /

This study of the language of insult charts abuse in classical Athenian literature that centres on the mouth and its appetites, especially talking, eating, drinking, and sexual activities. Attic comedy, Platonic dialogue, and fourth-century oratory often deploy insulting depictions of the mouth and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Worman, Nancy, 1963- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Temas:
Invective > Greece > Athens.
Invective in literature.
Greek literature > History and criticism.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Invectives > Grèce > Athènes.
Invectives dans la littérature.
Littérature grecque > Histoire et critique.
Rhétorique ancienne.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Greek literature.
Intellectual life.
Invective.
Athens (Greece) > Intellectual life.
Greece > Athens.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The mouth and its abuses in epic, lyric, and tragedy
  • Open mouths and abusive talk in Aristophanes
  • Gluttonous speechifying in Euripides' Cyclops
  • Crude talk and fancy fare in Plato
  • Defamation and oral excesses in Aeschines and Demosthenes
  • The intemperate mouth in Aristotle and Theophrastus
  • Epilogue.

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