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Heteros tis eimi: On the Language of Menander's Young Lovers [PDF]
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Brenk, Frederick E.
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πολὺν γέλων: laughter, humour & Greek tragedy [PDF]
This DPhil builds upon the relatively limited prior research into laughter and humour in Greek tragedy. Recent and long-standing social theories of laughter are introduced to account for the textual instances of γέλως ‘laughter’ vocabulary in extant ...
Middleton, Alison
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Paracomedy in Euripides' Bacchae [PDF]
Κατ' αναλογίαν προς την «παρατραγωδία», ο όρος «παρακωμωδία», που εισήχθη το 1995, καθιερώθηκε ως δηλωτικός της εκμετάλλευσης ορισμένων κωμικών θεμάτων από την τραγωδία.
Kanellakis, Dimitrios
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Aristophanes, Fandom and the Classicizing of Greek Tragedy [PDF]
It is no doubt true that the questions I would like to address in this chapter, which concern Aristophanes’ role (and more broadly, the role of Old Comedy) in disseminating and popularizing Greek tragedy, can never be answered adequately, given the ...
Rosen, Ralph M
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A Baker’s Dozen: Thesm. × 12, Clouds × 1 [PDF]
В статье обсуждаются трудные для интерпретации пассажи из Женщин на празднике Фесмофорий и Облаков Аристофана в ответ на критические замечания Р ...
Austin, Colin
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Close Encounters of the Comic Kind:Aristophanes’ Frogs and Lysistrata in Athenian Mythological Burlesque of the 1880s [PDF]
This chapter examines a peculiar modern Greek adaptation of Aristophanes’ Frogs, published anonymously in 1888. The translator took great liberties with the original text, its structure and its contents.
Van Steen, Gonda Aline Hector
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Rileggendo il Prometheus di Luciano [PDF]
This paper is intended to offer a reappraisal of an important, but underestimated dialogue of Lucian, especially with regard to its intertextual relationship with classical authors (Hesiod, Aeschylus, Plato) and to its place in Lucian’s ideology ...
GARGIULO, TRISTANO
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Strattis, tragedy, and comedy [PDF]
This study comprises a translation, textual commentary, and discussion of the fragments of the Old comic dramatist Strattis which engage with tragedy. It forms the centre of a wider examination of the art of paratragedy and tragic parody in Old Comedy ...
Miles, Sarah N.
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Intriga cómica versus intriga trágica en Tesmoforiantes de Aristófanes [PDF]
Thesmophoriazousae is a play with a wide presence of parodic elements taken from the rescue tragedies of Euripides. In the present article we analyze the way in which Aristophanes, when plotting the comic action in this comedy, recreates the typical ...
Quijada Sagredo, Milagros
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Towards a definition of absurdist humour : the example of Bojack Horseman [PDF]
The only definition of “absurdist humor” can be found in the Encyclopedia of Humor Studies and states that it is composed of two essential fields: the rational absurd and the existential absurd. This dissertation intends to construct a genealogy of the
Laranjo, Duarte Boazinha
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