Reproducing Athens : : Menander's Comedy, Democratic Culture, and the Hellenistic City /

Reproducing Athens : : Menander's Comedy, Democratic Culture, and the Hellenistic City / / Susan Lape.

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Reproducing Athens examines the role of romantic comedy, particularly the plays of Menander, in defending democratic culture and transnational polis culture against various threats during the initial and most fraught period of the Hellenistic Era. Menander's romantic comedies--which focus on or...

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Lape, Susan,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2004
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Narratives of Resistance and Romance
  • 2. Reproducing Democracy in Oligarchic and Autocratic Athens
  • 3. Making Citizens in Comedy and Court
  • 4. The Ethics of Democracy in Menander's Dyskolos
  • 5. The Politics of Sexuality in Drama and Democratic Athens
  • 6. The Mercenary Romance
  • 7. Trials of Masculinity in Democratic Discourse and Menander's Sikyōnioi
  • 8. Conclusion: Inevitable Reproduction?
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index Locorum
  • General Index

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