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The article discusses the concept of genealogy and the cultural significance of the ancient comedy in the view of O. M. Freidenberg. For Freidenberg, the ancient comedy was a form of metaphorization of reality. The metaphor, like the symbol in Cassirer's
Arkadiusz Bednarczuk +1 more
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Παρρησία and Comedy, a Nonsense Link in the Classical Period
The expression comic parrhesia is common in the scholarly literature, and the notion that the word παρρησία in ancient Greek may denote comedy’s freedom of speech is almost commonplace, and taken for granted.
Xavier Riu
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La mandragore, non seulement un analgesique narcotique: sa place dans la medecine et la civilisation grecque antique [PDF]
The mandrake, not just a narcotic: its place in medicine and ancient greek civilization Hippocrates and his followers, as well as Pedanius Dioscorides, Pseudo-Galen and Aretaeus of Cappadocia are just a few of the many ancient Greek physicians who ...
Konstantinos LAIOS +4 more
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HUMOR Y VIOLENCIA FÍSICA: ANTECEDENTES DEL SLAPSTICK EN LA LITERATURA GRIEGA ANTIGUA
La violencia física de carácter cómico registra antecedentes en distintos géneros de la literatura griega antigua. La crítica ha asociado los orígenes del slapstick con la farsa popular, pero el recurso puede remontarse a la épica y rastrearse en la ...
Jimena Schere
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The author studies an example of the links between interpretation and translation, the ancient comedy of Aristophanes. The first part sets out the main problems of translation, some of its theories and constant obstacles, before focusing attention on the
Anne de Cremoux
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Assuming the performative dimension as the key to an adequate understanding of Plautus comedies, this paper studies a grammar of the ancient dramatic technique through the performances of the slave Pseudolus, in the same comedy. With this character, that
Chiara Felici
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Gwałt na scenie (przypadek Terencjusza)
Rape on Stage (the Case of Terence) In four of his six comedies the Roman playwright Terence uses rape as the key element of intrigue which in the plot of his plays leads to marriage and a happy ...
Ewa Skwara
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New Comedy and Roman Comedy: With and Without Menander
ENGLISH As the only surviving representative of New Comedy, Menander offers an interesting case-study of how ancient perceptions of genre definition, qualification and categorization may be subjected to ongoing renegotiation, but also how this ever ...
Sophia Papaioannou
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UN GIALLO ITALIANO ALL’ORIGINE DELLA RIPRESA DEL CULTO DANTESCO [PDF]
In the essay, the author conducts an intertextual inquiry that highlights the terms of the ‘dialogue’ between ancient and modern, in which Dante’s Comedy invariably returns a source the source, always alive and current, to which Giulio Leoni draws ...
Anna Maria Cotugno
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Old Comedy, Public Intellectuals and the Origins of Dissent Communication: The Case of Aristophanes
The purpose of this article is to explore the emergence of a strategic communication management of dissent (the so called dissent public relations) and to set its beginnings in the context of ancient Greek comedy represented by Aristophanes. Indeed, Old
Jordi Xifra
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