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02160aam a2200385Ii 4500 001 0C2446F4F70611E582760BA0DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160331010051 008 150909t20152011enk b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1107525942 (Paperback) 020 $a 9781107525948 (Paperback) 020 $a 0521764076 (Hardback) 020 $a 9780521764070 (Hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)920531920 040 $a IOG $b eng $e rda $c IOG $d NhCcYME $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 043 $a e-gr--- 050 04 $a PA3879 $b .B355 2015 050 04 $a PA3879 $b .B355 2015 082 04 $a 792.09 $2 22/ger 082 04 $a 880 $2 22/ger 082 04 $a 882/.01 084 $a 6,12 $2 ssgn 084 $a FH 26580 $2 rvk 100 1 $a Biles, Zachary P., $d 1968- 245 10 $a Aristophanes and the poetics of competition / $c Zachary P. Biles. 250 $a First paperback edition. 264 1 $a Cambridge, UK ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2015. 300 $a xi, 290 pages ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Athenian comic drama was written for performance at festivals honouring the god Dionysos. Through dramatic action and open discourse, poets sought to engage their rivals and impress the audience, all in an effort to obtain victory in the competitions. This book uses that competitive performance context as an interpretive framework within which to understand the thematic interests shaping the plots and poetic quality of Aristophanes' plays in particular, and of Old Comedy in general. Studying five individual plays from the Aristophanic corpus as well as fragments of other comic poets, it reveals the competitive poetics distinctive to each. It also traces thematic connections with other poetic traditions, especially epic, lyric, and tragedy, and thereby seeks to place competitive poetics within broader trends in Greek literature"-- Provided by publisher. 600 00 $a Aristophanes $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Greek drama (Comedy) $x History and criticism. 941 $a 1 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20160331011832.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0C2446F4F70611E582760BA0DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search