The Language of Greek Comedy

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-924547-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 633 g

The contributions to this volume illustrate how the linguistic study of Greek comedy can deepen our knowledge of the intricate connections between the dramatic texts and their literary and socio-cultural environment. Topics discussed include the relationship of comedy and iambus, the world of Doric comedy in Sicily, figures of speech and obscene vocabulary in Aristophanes, comic elements in tragedy, language and cultural identity in fifth-century Athens, linguistic characterization in Middle Comedy, the textual transmission of New Comedy, and the interaction of language and dramatic technique in Menander. Research in these topics and in related areas is reviewed in an extensive bibliographical essay.

While the main focus is on comedy, the diversity of the approaches adopted (including narratology, pragmatics, lexicology, dialectology, sociolinguistics, and textual criticism) ensures that much of the work applies to different genres and is relevant also to linguists and literary scholars.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Willi, Andreas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- The Language of Greek Comedy

- Ionic Iambos and Attic Komoidia

- The Language of Doric Comedy

- Some Evaluative Terms in Aristophanes

- Figures of Speech in Aristophanes

- Comic Elements in Tragic Language

- Mágeiros poietés

- Orthographical Variants in Papyri

- Speech in Speech in Menander

Über Autor(innen)

Andreas Willi is Research Assistant in Classics, University of Basel, Switzerland