Aristophanes and Menander: Three Comedies
Peace, Money, the God, and Samia
$129.18
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
2 September 2014
Summary
Three Comedies features the work of three dramatic geniuses of the glorious, no-holds-barred tradition of ancient Athenian comedy. Here Aristophanes, the eight-hundred-pound gorilla of Old and Middle Comedy meets Menander, elephant in the room of New Comedy, in a match made possible by Douglass Parker–if not Athenian exactly, or even ancient, possibly the maddest chameleon ever to absorb the true colors of an ancient choral song, transpose a lost pun, or channel a venerable, giant, dung-ea…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781624661860 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1624661866 |
| Author: | Douglass Parker, Timothy J. Moore |
| Publisher: | Hackett Publishing Co, Inc |
| Imprint: | Hackett Publishing Co, Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 2 September 2014 |
| Weight: | 502g |
| Dimensions: | 155mm x 233mm |
| Series: | Hackett Classics |
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About The Author
Douglass Parker
Douglass Parker (19272011) was Professor of Classics, University of Texas, Austin, where he taught for more than forty years. Both a Guggenheim Fellow and a finalist for the National Book Award for Translation for his The Congresswomen (Aristophanes’ Ecclesiazusae, University of Michigan Press), he was described in one of his own syllabi as “rarely [thinking] of himself as an academic, but rather as an itinerant trombonist who took a wrong turn about 1946.” His and Deena Berg’s Plautus and Terence: Five Comedies is also published by Hackett.
Timothy J. Moore is John and Penelope Biggs Distinguished Professor of Classics, Washington University in St. Louis.
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