Fragments of Old Comedy, Volume II

Fragments of Old Comedy, Volume II
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 535
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ISBN-10 : 9780674996632
ISBN-13 : 0674996631
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Download or read book Fragments of Old Comedy, Volume II written by Ian C. Storey and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The era of Old Comedy (ca. 485–ca. 380 BC), when theatrical comedy was created and established, is best known through the extant plays of Aristophanes. But the work of many other poets, including Cratinus and Eupolis, the other members, with Aristophanes, of the canonical Old Comic Triad, survives in fragments.


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