Aristophanes and Menander: Three Comedies
Three Comedies features the work of three dramatic geniuses of the glorious, no-holds-barred tradition of ancient Athenian comedy. Here Aristophanes, the eight-hundred-pound gorilla of Old and Middle Comedy meets Menander, elephant in the room of New Comedy, in a match made possible by Douglass Parker--if not Athenian exactly, or even ancient, possibly the maddest chameleon ever to absorb the true colors of an ancient choral song, transpose a lost pun, or channel a venerable, giant, dung-eating cockroach for the benefit of those who couldnat be there the first time. Timothy J. Moore offers concise and informative introductions and notes to Parkeras brilliant translation of Aristophanes' fantastical Peace and Money, the God and Menanderas lively, domestic Samia--and includes, as a bonus, Parker's James Constantine Lecture at the University of Virginia, qA Desolation Called Peace: Trials of an Aristophanic Translator.qUniversity. of. Virginia, . Charlottesville, . November. 3a4, . 1988. Whether I should be giving this address at all is a matter ... recall, I was going quietly mad in Southern California, wrestling with the parabasis of The acharnians), which makes me, anbsp;...
| Title | : | Aristophanes and Menander: Three Comedies |
| Author | : | Timothy J. Moore |
| Publisher | : | Hackett Publishing - 2014-09-03 |
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