Abusive mouths in classical Athens / Nancy Worman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worman, Nancy, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Invective--Greece--Athens.

Invective.

Invective in literature.

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Athens (Greece)--Intellectual life.

Athens (Greece).

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Greece--Athens.

Physical Description:

xi, 385 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Contents:

1 The mouth and its abuses in epic, lyric, and tragedy 25

2 Open mouths and abusive talk in Aristophanes 62

3 Gluttonous speechifying in Euripides' Cyclops 121

4 Crude talk and fancy fare in Plato 153

5 Defamation and oral excesses in Aeschines and Demosthenes 213

6 The intemperate mouth in Aristotle and Theophrastus 275.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-345) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780521857871

0521857872

OCLC:

174449724