Aristophanic Comedy. - DOVER, K.J.,
KORTE INHOUD
'Dover begins his preface by saying: 'This book is designed primarily for the reader who does not know Greek.' It is therefore breathtaking, yet absolutely characteristic, that he devotes the first chapter to an account of the manuscripts, with several carefully translated examples of textual problems. Perhaps everyone would agree that the most logical order of presentation is to start from the surviving documents which are the foundation of all that is known of Aristophanes; perhaps no one but Dover would actually have dared to do it, at least in a book intended for Greekless readers. Yet it comes off; even Greekless readers will understand this chapter, which in twelve pages gives the clearest and best short account of the transmission of Greek literature from ancient to modern times that I have ever read. The next four chapters give a general account (but including many significant details) of the theatrical conditions and of the content, form, and style of the surviving plays. The good things in these cha...
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London, 1972. XV,253p. ills. Cloth wrps.Antiquarian Titel: Aristophanic Comedy. Auteur: DOVER, K.J.,
'Dover begins his preface by saying: 'This book is designed primarily for the reader who does not know Greek.' It is therefore breathtaking, yet absolutely characteristic, that he devotes the first chapter to an account of the manuscripts, with several carefully translated examples of textual problems. Perhaps everyone would agree that the most logical order of presentation is to start from the surviving docu...
'Dover begins his preface by saying: 'This book is designed primarily for the reader who does not know Greek.' It is therefore breathtaking, yet absolutely characteristic, that he devotes the first chapter to an account of the manuscripts, with several carefully translated examples of textual problems. Perhaps everyone would agree that the most logical order of presentation is to start from the surviving docu...
