Description / Table of Contents:
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Metaphors and Personifications Onstage -- Imaginary Wor(l)ds: Comic Language and the Construction of Fantasy -- A Less Maculate Muse -- Like a Rabid Dog: Animal Metaphors and Similes in Aristophanes -- The Shop of Aristophanes the Carpenter: How Comic Poets Assembled (and Disassembled) Words -- "When He Should Have Said..." The Treatment of Humour παρ' ὑπόνοιαν in the Aristophanic Scholia -- Rhyme in Greek Comedy -- Three Words in Aristophanes' Wealth (999, 1037, 1083) -- Spoudaiogeloion Revisited: Homeric Text between a Scholar and a Cook -- Proper Names, Nicknames, Epithets: Aspects of Comic Language in Middle Comedy -- Strategies of Verbal Humour in Menander's Dyskolos: From Linguistics to Dramaturgy -- List of Contributors -- Index Nominum et Rerum -- Index Locorum -- Index of Notable Greek Words and Phrases.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (446 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783111295282
Series Statement:
Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Series v.154
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=31361139
DDC:
882.0109
Language:
English
Note:
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