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Criticizing politicians in Ancient Comedy

Humanitas, 2016
Old Comedy brought into focus all aspects of life in Athens, with an infinitefreedom of speech. One of its main targets were the politicians who ruled thedestinies of the polis, criticized mercilessly for their public activities, but also fortheir ...
María José García Soler
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Ancient comedy: testimony of sources. Antikinė komedija: šaltinių liudijimai [PDF]

Literatūra (Vilnius), 2010
Straipsnyje nagrinėjami pagrindiniai išlikę antikinių šaltinių liudijimai apie komedijos žanrinę specifiką – Aristotelio Poetika ir Retorika bei vienintelis išlikęs komedijai skirtas kūrinys, vadinamasis Tractatus Coislinianus.
Vita Paparinska
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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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La Commedia tra testo e immagine: breve viaggio nella letteratura dantesca a fumetti

Itinera, 2023
Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy is rich in visual and imaginative suggestions, capable of intertwining in total harmony with words and triplets in alternating rhyme, giving life to a unique and fascinating work. Over the centuries, the “divine poem” has
Celeste Cassina
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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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LGgK: Lexical database of the realia in ancient Greek comedy

, 2021
The paper presents a new database collecting artifacts mentioned in ancient Greek comedy (LGgK). The first part of the paper explains the choice of Greek comedy as primary source of information on artifacts. The second part shows the project's technical basis and the data processing, as well as how to use the database.
A. Novokhatko, V. Mastellari, B. Gavazza, L. Glaser   +3 more
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Construction of fiction in Acarnenses, of Aristophanes

Cadernos de Letras da UFF, 2018
In this paper we aim to show particularities of the construction of dramatic illusion in Ancient Greek Comedy. Aristophanes’ Archanensis (425 b.C.) will be analyzed as our main object and we will seek for linguistics marks whose could mean rupture of ...
Jane Kelly Oliveira
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Greek economic institutions through Aristophanic comedy: a pedagogical application

The Journal of Classics Teaching
Teaching introductory courses on the ancient world is a study in reviewing a vast field of material without compromising on nuance. It is a tightrope walk, especially when beginning a teaching career.
Anna Accettola
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Audience Addresses as a Technique in the Prologues of Aristophanes’ Comedies [PDF]

Studia Litterarum
This article examines Aristophanes’ use of addressing or mentioning the audience in the prologues of comedies. This technique is found in different parts of comedy but its use in the prologues of comedies has not been properly studied.
Ekaterina N. Buzurnyuk
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Dante Alighieri's "Comedy": codices, copyists and scriptures

Annali Online dell'Università di Ferrara. Sezione Lettere, 2017
The paper aims at investigating the manuscript tradition of Dante’s Comedy until the early printed editions. After a brief overview of different typologies of the most ancient manuscript tradition (14th century, first half), the analysis will focus on ...
Sandro Bertelli
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