Reproducing Athens : Menander's comedy, democratic culture, and the Hellenistic city /
Reproducing Athens examines the role of romantic comedy, particularly the plays of Menander, in defending democratic culture and transnational polis culture against various threats during the initial and most fraught period of the Hellenistic Era. Menander's romantic comedies--which focus on or...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2004.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Narratives of resistance and romance : democracy and comedy in the early Hellenistic Period
- Reproducing democracy in oligarchic and autocratic Athens
- Making citizens in comedy and court
- The ethics of democracy in Menander's Dyskolos
- The politics of sexuality in drama in Democratic Athens : the case of Menander's Samia
- The Mercenary romance : gender and civic education in the Perikeiromenē and Misoumenos
- Trials of masculinity in democratic discourse and Menander's Sikyōnioi.