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Nonsense and Meaning in Ancient Greek Comedy
2014This book examines the concept of 'nonsense' in ancient Greek thought and uses it to explore the comedies of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. If 'nonsense' (phluaria, lēros) is a type of language felt to be unworthy of interpretation, it can help to define certain aspects of comedy that have proved difficult to grasp.
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[Technical medicine in ancient comedy].
Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 1995The texts of Greek comedy offer a panoramic vision of the evolution of medicine between the fifth and the third centuries. They provide an excellent way to understand the prejudices and the bases of technical medicine and its relationship with popular medicine. Comedy also shows us a vivid portrait of the physician and his position in Greek society.
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Performing Ancient Drama in Mask: the Case of Greek New Comedy
New Theatre Quarterly, 2004Chris Vervain is a mask maker who has for a number of years trained and directed in performing masked drama. On the basis of research she has undertaken, using her own masks, on how to perform the ancient Greek plays, in this article she questions some of the modern orthodoxies of masked theatre, drawing specifically on her experience with Menander's ...
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John Wilkins: The Boastful Chef The Discourse of Food in Ancient Greek Comedy
Petits Propos CulinairesJohn Wilkins: The Boastful Chef The Discourse of Food in Ancient Greek Comedy. Oxford University Press, 2001 : ISBN 0-19-924068-X: 465 pp., bibliography, indexes, h/b, £55.
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The Boastful Chef: The Discourse of Food in Ancient Greek Comedy
The Classical World, 2002Alexander Sens, John Wilkins
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