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Venom in verse : Aristophanes in modern Greece /

Aristophanes has enjoyed a conspicuous revival in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greece. Here, Gonda Van Steen provides the first critical analysis of the role of the classical Athenian playwright in modern Greek culture, explaining how the sociopolitical "venom" of Aristophanes' v...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Van Steen, Gonda Aline Hector, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000.
Series:Princeton modern Greek studies.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Poisoned gift from antiquity: Aristophanes as Paravase of Koraes' nationalist ideology
  • Aristophanes in modern Greek: a demotic, satirical, and theatrical Paravase
  • The Lysistrata euphoria of 1900 to 1940: sexual and antifeminist Paravase
  • Koun's birds of 1959: Paravase of right-wing politics
  • Framing, clowning, and cloning Aristophanes.