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Aristophanes and Menander: Three Comedies: Peace, Money, the God, and Samia
By (Author) Douglass Parker
Edited by Timothy J. Moore
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
1st December 2014
United States
General
Non Fiction
882.01
Paperback
256
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-eating cockroach for the benefit of those who couldn't be there the first time.