Antonis K Petrides

Menander, New Comedy and the Visual

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how both verbal and visual allusion position the plays of New Comedy within the context of contemporary polis culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: European Community
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781107068438
• ISBN-10: 1107068436
• Artikelnr.: 41217962

Autorenporträt

Antonis K. Petrides (M.Phil., Ph.D., University of Cambridge) is Assistant Professor of Classics at the Open University of Cyprus.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Menander's New Comedy between reality and textuality
2. New performance: visuality and intervisuality in Menander
3. Of Greeks and others: mask, character and action in New Comedy
4. Of mice and (young) men: the mask as inter-face
5. A few good men: the panchr¿stos mask and the politics of perfection.