• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Politics and anti-realism in Athenian old comedy : the art of the impossible
  • Contributor: Ruffell, Ian [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011
  • Published in: Oxford classical monographs
  • Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 499 p.); ill
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199587216.001.0001
  • ISBN: 9780191731297
  • Identifier:
  • RVK notation: FE 4601 : Einzelfragen
  • Keywords: Griechisch > Komödie > Politik > Komik
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
  • Description: The comic drama of the late fifth and early fourth century BCE was typified by the combination of absurd and fantastic plots often dealing with social and political issues of the day. This study puts these elements centre-stage and argues that it was through them that the comedy of the period made its political interventions.