Saturio's inheritance : the Greek ancestry of the Roman comic parasite / Elizabeth Ivory Tylawsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tylawsky, Elizabeth Ivory, 1957-

Contributor:

Allan and Philip Carlson Memorial Fund.

Series:

Artists and issues in the theatre ; vol. 9.

Artists and issues in the theatre ; vol. 9

Language:

English

Greek, Modern (1453-)

Subjects (All):

Latin drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.

Latin drama (Comedy).

Parasitism (Social sciences) in literature.

Latin drama (Comedy)--Greek influences.

Marginality, Social, in literature.

Literature and society--Rome.

Literature and society.

Theater and society--Rome.

Theater and society.

Physical Description:

x, 192 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : P. Lang, [2002]

Contents:

Introduction: Saturio's Inheritance: The Greek Ancestry of the Roman Comic Parasite 1

Chapter 1 Ragged Opportunism in Early Greek Poetry and Society 7

Chapter 2 Beggarly Interlopers and the Democracy: Aristophanes' Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps 17

Chapter 3 Fashionable Philosophizing: Clouds and Contemporary Society 29

Chapter 4 The Forging of a Stereotype: Society in the 420's and Eupolis' Flatterers 43

Chapter 5 Athenaeus, the Flatterer, and Middle Comedy 59

Chapter 6 The Flatterer and Contemporary Themes 79

Chapter 7 Flatterers and New Comedy 93

Chapter 8 Saturio's Inheritance 107.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-173) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Allan and Philip Carlson Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0820441287

OCLC:

39195333