Classical Comedy
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
17 October 2006
Summary
A new anthology, bringing together four masterpieces of classical comedy in one volume.
From the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes’ bold, imaginative Birds, and Menander’s The Girl from Samos, which explores popular contemporary themes of mistaken identity and sexual misbehaviour; and two later Roman com…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140449822 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140449825 |
| Author: | Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Terence, Erich Segal |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 17 October 2006 |
| Weight: | 258g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Aristophanes
Little is known about Aristophanes’ life (c. 445BC-c.386BC), but there is a portrait of him in Plato’s Symposium. His first comedy was produced when he was 20 and he wrote 40 plays in the course of his life.
Erich Segal has taught Classics at Harvard, Yale and Princeton and is currently an Honorary Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. He has published widely on Greek and Roman Comedy, his latest book, The Death of Comedy, was published in 2001. He is also the author of nine best-selling novels.
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