The language of Greek comedy

• Main Author: Willi, Andreas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English; Ancient Greek
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2002
• Subjects: Ελληνικό δράμα (Κωμωδία) > Γλώσσα; Ελληνικό δράμα (Κωμωδία) > Μελέτες

Table of Contents:

• The language of Greek comedy: introduction and bibliographic sketch / Andreas Willi - Ionian Iambos and Attic Komoidia: father and daughter, or just cousins? / Ewen Bowie - The language of Doric comedy / Albio C. Cassio -Some evaluative terms in Aristophanes / Kenneth Dover - Figures of speech in Aristophanes / Simon R. Slings - Languages on stage: Aristophanic language, cultural history, and Athenian identity / Andreas Willi - Comic elements in tragic language: the case of Aeschylus' Oresteia / Alan H. Sommerstein - Μάγειρος ποιητής: language and character in Antiphanes / Gregory W. Dobrov - Some orthographical variants in the papyri of later Greek comedy / W. Geoffrey Arnott
• Speech within speech in Menander / Rene Nunlist.