Comedy and Her Critics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20061980 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregory W Dobrov (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Pages | 1-33 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Brill's Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004188846_002 |
| OpenAlex | W785824128 |
| ISBN | 9789004188846 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Comedy endures as the most robust and adaptable genre to emerge from classical Athens. From its inception through Roman adaptations and modern sitcoms, this Greek invention has enjoyed a vigorous reception down to the present day. In the landscape of modern scholarship, however, Greek appears to be a late bloomer. Criticism implies an act of separation in which a hierarchy of worth comes into play. Philebus is unique in the Platonic corpus for its sustained discussion of and comic character. When progressing from Plato's Philebus to the Poetics of Aristotle, one should be mindful of a shift in the meaning of comedy between the final decades of the fifth century Plato's formative years and Aristotle's maturity in the third quarter of the fourth. The new poetics of Alexandrianism and the sciences of textual criticism and exegesis were hallmarks of the era.Keywords: Alexandrianism; Aristotle; Greek comedy; Plato's Philebus; textual criticism
Art · Catharsis · Comedy · Comics · Criticism · Epistemology · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Scholarship · Classical Antiquity Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.71 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |