CAIRNS, D.L., and R.A. KNOX, (eds.),
Law, Rhetoric, and Comedy in Classical Athens. Essays in Honour of Douglas M. MacDowell.
The Classical Press of Wales, Swansea, 2004. XXIII,296p. Bound wrps. With Programme of the Conference in Honour of Professor D.M. MacDowell (30 June - 2 July 2001) loosely inserted. Nice copy.
An international cast of distinguished scholars here offers seventeen new contributions on the detail and development of Athenian law; the life, work, and political background of the Attic orators; and the intersection of Attic Comedy with Athenian law, politics, and society. In their detailed and careful use of evidence and deep awareness of social and historical contexts, the essays aspire to standards set by their distinguished honor and, Professor D.M. MacDowell. (Editor's information). A.o.: G. THÜR: Law of procedure in Attic inscriptions (pp.33-51); M.J. EDWARDS: Antiphon the revolutionary (pp.75-87); S.C. TODD: Revisiting the herms and the mysteries (pp.87-103); S. USHER: Lysias for pleasure (pp.113-123); Chr. CAREY: Antiphon's daughter (pp.123-151); A.H. SOMMERSTEIN: Comedy and the unspeakable (pp.205-223); K. DOVER: The limits of allegory and allusion in Aristophanes (pp.239-251; W.G. ARNOTT: Menander's Epitrepontes in the light of the new papyri (pp.269-293). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott.
€ 45.00
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