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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Major, Wilfred E., 1967-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2013]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Aristophanes.
Aristophanes > Criticism and interpretation.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Greek drama (Comedy)
Rhetorique ancienne > Histoire.
Comedie grecque > Histoire et critique.
Rhetoric, Ancient > History.
Greek drama (Comedy) > History and criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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