The Birth of Comedy: Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486--280 by

The Birth of Comedy: Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486--280

with Jeffrey Henderson (Translator), David Konstan (Translator)

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fiction classics literary play funny informative reflective medium-paced
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Aside from the well-known plays of Aristophanes, many of the comedies of ancient Greece are known only through fragments and references written in Greek. Now a group of distinguished scholars brings these nearly lost works to modern readers with l...

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