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Alexis: The Fragments: A Commentary: 31 (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, Series Number 31) - Hardcover

Alexis

 
9780521551809: Alexis: The Fragments: A Commentary: 31 (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, Series Number 31)

Synopsis

This 1996 text was the first detailed commentary on the fragments remaining from the plays of the Greek comic poet Alexis (c. 375–270 BC).

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Review

'... [a] contribution of formidable erudition and a model for any subsequent editor.' William M. Calser, III, Religious Studies Review

'The fruit of more than forty years' labor in the vineyards of Greek comedy, Arnott's commentary is a monument of scholarship which belongs in every research library. This massive erudition is amply leavened by a deep appreciation for Alexis' poetry and dramaturgy and illumined by comparisons to later authors as diverse as Alexander Pope and Salman Rushdie. In short, this one of the enduring achievements of twentieth-century scholarship.' Niall W. Slater, Classical World

'We, and generations of scholars yet to come, all stand in Geoffrey Arnott's debt.' Sander M. Goldberg, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Book Description

This 1996 text was the first detailed commentary on the fragments remaining from the plays of the Greek comic poet Alexis (c. 375–270 BC). The comments discuss all aspects of the textual transmission, the language, the dramatic background and the relation of the plays to their contemporary milieu.

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