Slaves and slavery in ancient Greek comic drama /

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How did audiences of ancient Greek comedy react to the spectacle of masters and slaves? If they were expected to laugh at a slave threatened with a beating by his master at one moment but laugh with him when they bantered familiarly at the next, what does this tell us about ancient Greek slavery? Th...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Akrigg, Ben (Éditeur intellectuel), Tordoff, Rob (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Sujets:
Greek drama (Comedy) > History and criticism.
Slavery in literature.
Comédie grecque > Histoire et critique.
Esclavage dans la littérature.
DRAMA > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Greek drama (Comedy)
Slavery in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 1. Introduction: slaves and slavery in ancient Greek comedy / Rob Tordoff
  • 2. Slaves and politics in early Aristophanic comedy / S. Douglas Olson
  • 3. Slavery, drama and the alchemy of identity in Aristophanes / Susan Lape
  • 4. Slaves in the fragments of old comedy / Donald Sells
  • 5. Aristophanes, slaves and history / Ben Akrigg
  • 6. A comedy of errors: the comic slave in Greek art / Kelly Wrenhaven
  • 7. Menander's slaves: the banality of violence / David Konstan
  • 8. Coping with punishment: the social networking of slaves in Menander / Cheryl Cox
  • 9. Sex slaves in new comedy / C.W. Marshall
  • 10. 'Phlyax' slaves: from vase to stage? / Kathryn Bosher
  • 11. Tokens of identity in Menander's Epitrepontes: slaves, citizens and in-betweens / Christina Vester.

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