TY - BOOK AU - Major,Wilfred E. ED - Project Muse. TI - The court of comedy: Aristophanes, rhetoric, and democracy in fifth-century Athens SN - 9780814271070 AV - PA3265 .M34 2013 U1 - 882/.01 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Columbus PB - Ohio State University Press KW - Aristophanes KW - Greek drama (Comedy) KW - History and criticism KW - Rhetoric, Ancient KW - History KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Sicilian pioneers of comedy and rhetoric and their transmission to Athens -- Old comedy and proto-rhetoric in Athens before 425 B.C.E. : the age of Pericles -- The young comic playwrights attack, 425-421 B.C.E. -- The years of confidence, 421-414 B.C.E. -- Crawling from the wreckage, 411 B.C.E. -- Tongues, frogs, and the last stand UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814271070/ ER -