The Songs of Aristophanes.

Lediglich der Schutzumschlag ist etwas berieben und lichtbedingt am Buchr�cken ausgeblichen, innen sehr sauber und ohne Anstreichungen / Only the dust jacket is a little rubbed and faded at the spine due to light, very clean inside and without markings. - A comedy of Aristophanes was in large measure a musical performance, and his lyric verse covers a wide range of styles�from popular song to parody of tragedy. The music is lost, and our only way of recovering something of the experience of an Athenian audience is by studying the rhythms of the poetry. This book provides a full text, with scansions, of the lyric of the surviving plays, and an introduction to the different rhythms used by Aristophanes, their origins, and literary associations. Dr Parker pays particular attention to the role played by lyric metre in the structure of the plays and to distinguishing the different levels of metrical style, thus illustrating the integral part metre plays in Aristophanes� dramatic art and satire. She also discusses fully the metrical aspects of textual problems in Aristophanes� lyric, and a section of the introduction traces the evolution of the study of Aristophanes� metres and the influence this has had on the text. / Contents Symbols Abbreviations and Metrical Terminology List of Manuscripts Cited I. INTRODUCTION 1. The Art of Aristophanes� Lyric 2. The Metres of Aristophanes Metrical Structures I. Colon and verse II. Strophic structure lambic Trochaic Cretic Dactylic Anapaestic Ionic Dochmiac Choriambic I. Aeolic-choriambic II. lambo-choriambic Dactylo-epitrite appendix: Notes on Prosody I. Epic correption II. Lengthening before plosive + liquid or nasal 3. Metre and the Transmission of the Text The Poet to Triclinius Triclinius to Brunck Brunck to the Present II. THE PLAYS Acharnians Knights Clouds Wasps Peace Birds Lysistrata Thesmophoriazusae Frogs Ecclesiazusae Wealth Select Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780198149446