The first new edition in almost sixty years, this volume of Aristophanes' Lysistrata brings the play completely up to date with modern scholarship. It provides the first complete account of its history and contains new information about the comic theater and its social and political context. Lysist
Poetics (Clarendon Paperbacks)
โ Scribed by Aristotle, D. W. Lucas (editor)
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 340
- Series
- Clarendon Paperbacks
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
โฆ Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Preface
CONTENTS
Introduction
I. Aristotle's Works
II. The Literary Works and the Second Book of the "Poetics"
III. Aristotle and His Predecessors
IV. The Text and Its Transmission
Bibliography and Abbreviations
Text
Commentary
Appendixes
I. Mimesis
II. Pity, Fear and Katharsis
III. Simple and Complex Tragedy
IV. Hamartia
Index
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