Menander's comedy, democratic culture, and the Hellenistic city /
Susan Lape.
Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
c2004.
xiii, 294 p. ;
24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-278) and indexes.
Narratives of resistance and romance : democracy and comedy in the early Hellenistic Period -- Reproducing democracy in oligarchic and autocratic Athens -- Making citizens in comedy and court -- The ethics of democracy in Menander's Dyskolos -- The politics of sexuality in drama in Democratic Athens : the case of Menander's Samia -- The Mercenary romance : gender and civic education in the Perikeiromenē and Misoumenos -- Trials of masculinity in democratic discourse and Menander's Sikyōnioi.
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Menander,Knowledge-- Athens (Greece)
Menander,Political and social views.
Comedy.
Democracy in literature.
Political plays, Greek-- History and criticism.
Politics and literature-- Greece-- Athens-- History-- To 500.