| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 441 pages) : illustrations, map |
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UPSO - Oxford University Press E-Books
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| Contents |
Eupolis in antiquity -- Eupolis' dates and career -- The comedies of Eupolis -- The 'war' between the poets -- Eupolis and comedy |
| Summary |
Eupolis (fl. 429-411 BC) was one of the best-attested and most important of Aristophanes' rivals. No complete work by this lost master has survived, but of his fourteen plays we have 500 fragments. These include 120 lines of his best-known comedy, Demoi (The Demes), which were discovered and published in 1911. Even in fragmentary form, Eupolis' plays shed interesting light on the whole range of issues - political, poetic, and dramatic - that make Aristophanes so perennially fascinating. There has, however, been no substantial survey in English until now. As well as providing a new translation of all the remaining fragments and a separate essay on each lost play, Ian C. Storey discusses Eupolis' career, redates the plays, examines how Eupolis was known in the ancient world, explores his relationship with Aristophanes (as both rival and collaborator), and delineates the distinct nature of the comedy that this prizewinning poet created |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-412) and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Eupolis, approximately 446 B.C.-411 B.C. -- Criticism and interpretation
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Eupolis, approximately 446 B.C.-411 B.C. fast |
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Greek drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Dramatists, Greek -- Biography
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Lost literature -- Greece
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Dramatists, Greek
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Intellectual life
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Lost literature
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Komedies.
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Grieks.
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Literatura grega (história e crítica)
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Drama (literatura) (história e crítica)
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Athens (Greece) -- Intellectual life
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Athens (Greece) -- Biography
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Greece
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Greece -- Athens
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Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191717420 |
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0191717428 |
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