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KASSIES, W., Aristophanes' traditionalisme. (Avec sommaire). Amsterdam, 1963. 129p. Theses. Sewn. With pen markings and annotations from KJD. Cover bit grimy. With double pages 33-48. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. Diss. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.'This is a concise, sensible, and sensitive essay on a familiar topic: Aristophanes' attitude to the past and his dramatic exploitation of it. (...) The complexities of Comedy as an art-from have been adequately explored, and its role as a 'protest against reality' has been perceived; we must also take account of the fact that there exists a type of temperament, resilient and fundamentally irreverent, to which everything has its funny side, and this temperament, a strong weapon in times of suffering and war (which the Greeks half regarded as an inescapable phenomenon of nature), was one of Aristophanes' assets.' (K.J. DOVER in The Classical Review (New Series), 1965, p.223). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 17.50 (Antiquarian)