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New Comedy and Roman Comedy: With and Without Menander

open access: yesthersites. 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]

open access: yesSinestesieonline, 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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The ghost of Alcestis [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Social Class [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Discussion of class structure in fifth-century Athens, historical constitution of theater audiences, and the changes in the comic representation of class antagonism from Aristophanes to ...
Abadie-Reynard   +667 more
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Old Comedy, Public Intellectuals and the Origins of Dissent Communication: The Case of Aristophanes

open access: yesGerión, 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 maschera del soldato dall’archáia alla mese

open access: yesLexis, 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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La Commedia tra testo e immagine: breve viaggio nella letteratura dantesca a fumetti

open access: yesItinera, 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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Construction of fiction in Acarnenses, of Aristophanes

open access: yesCadernos 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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Audience Addresses as a Technique in the Prologues of Aristophanes’ Comedies [PDF]

open access: yesStudia 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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