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Mantichora, 2020 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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Publics and Audiences in Ancient Greece [PDF]
, 2013 An overview of the historical constitution of theater audiences in Classical Athens and the implications of this assessment. I first sketch out the dominant ways in which modern scholars have defined ancient audiences.
David Roselli
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Gwałt na scenie (przypadek Terencjusza)
Przekładaniec, 2023 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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"The Milk of Birds": A Proverbial Phrase, Ancient and Modern, and its Link to Nature [PDF]
, 2017 A curious phrase from ancient Greek, ὀρνίθων γάλα, finds parallels in Latin as lac gallinaceum and in Modern Greek, as και του πουλιού το γάλα. While the Greek phrases translate as "(and) the milk of (the) bird(s)", the Latin translates as "henʼs milk".
Payne, Martha J.
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C. W. Marshall and G. Kovacs (eds), No Laughing Matter: Studies in Athenian Comedy (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012) [PDF]
, 2016 No abstract ...
Ruffell, Ian A.
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New Comedy and Roman Comedy: With and Without Menander
thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, 2015 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]
Sinestesieonline, 2018 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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La maschera del soldato dall’archáia alla mese
Lexis, 2023 The mask of the boastful, arrogant, cowardly soldier asserts itself as a stock character in the Greek comedy of the fourth-third century BC and comes to its fullest expression in Roman palliata with Pyrgopolinice, the protagonist of Plautus’ Miles ...
Ingrosso, Paola
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, 2010 This chapter considers a complex of materials centred on the Alcestis of Euripides and its reception history as an opera (Lully, Gluck) in early modern France. The interest of this particular text is that its operatic setting by Lully generated a polemic
Wygant, A.
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Old Comedy, Public Intellectuals and the Origins of Dissent Communication: The Case of Aristophanes
Gerión, 2019 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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