The city as comedy : society and representation in Athenian drama

The city as comedy : society and representation in Athenian drama / edited by Gregory W. Dobrov.

Other author/creator	Dobrov, Gregory W., 1957-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, ©1997.
Description	xix, 355 pages ; 25 cm
Subject(s)	Greek drama (Comedy)--History and criticism. Literature and society--Greece --Athens. City and town life in literature. Cities and towns in literature. Mimesis in literature. Athens (Greece)--In literature.

Contents	Greek polis and its negations : versions of utopia in Aristophanes' Birds / David Konstan -- Utopianism and the sophistic city in Aristophanes / Thomas K. Hubbard -- Good intentions and the ai pasai polsis [alpha iota - pi alpha sigma alpha iota - pi omicron lambda sigma iota sigma] / F.E. Romer -- Performing the city in Birds / Niall W. Slater -- Language, fiction, and utopia / Gregory W. Dubrov -- Mass versus elite and the comic heroism of Peisetairos / Jeffrey Henderson -- Gendered polis in Eupolis' Cities / Ralph M. Rosen -- Tyranny of roles : playacting and privilege in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae / Elizabeth Bobrick -- Oikos and Agora : mapping the polis in Aristophanes' Wasps / Gregory Crane -- Aristophanes and the discourse of politics / Malcolm Heath -- Comic cuisine : food and eating in the comic polis / John Wilkins -- Polis of Athens in middle comedy / Heinz-Günther Nesselrath -- Odoz e ez korakaz [omicron delta omicron zeta - eta - epsilon zeta - kappa omicron rho alpha kappa alpha zeta] : polis and Oikoumenê in Menander / Timothy P. Hofmeister.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	97009888
ISBN	0807823376 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0807846457 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PA3875.A8 D63 1997	✔ Available	Place Hold