Aristophanes, Old Comedy and Greek Tragedy PDF
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UUnniivveerrssiittyy ooff PPeennnnssyyllvvaanniiaa SScchhoollaarrllyyCCoommmmoonnss Departmental Papers (Classical Studies) Classical Studies at Penn January 2005 AArriissttoopphhaanneess,, OOlldd CCoommeeddyy aanndd GGrreeeekk TTrraaggeeddyy Ralph M. Rosen University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/classics_papers RReeccoommmmeennddeedd CCiittaattiioonn Rosen, R. M. (2005). Aristophanes, Old Comedy and Greek Tragedy. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/classics_papers/26 Reprinted from A Companion to Tragedy, edited by Rebecca Bushnell, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, number 32 (Massachusetts: Blackwell, 2005), pages 251-268. The author has asserted his right to include this material in ScholarlyCommons@Penn. This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/classics_papers/26 For more information, please contact [email protected]. AArriissttoopphhaanneess,, OOlldd CCoommeeddyy aanndd GGrreeeekk TTrraaggeeddyy AAbbssttrraacctt In a famous scene at the end of Plato's symposium, after a high-minded philosophical discussion about the nature of love at a festive dinner party had degenerated into a drunken free-for-all, only three of the guests were sober enough to continue the conversation: the philosopher Socrates, the tragic poet Agathon, and the comic poet Aristophanes. CCoommmmeennttss Reprinted from A Companion to Tragedy, edited by Rebecca Bushnell, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, number 32 (Massachusetts: Blackwell, 2005), pages 251-268. The author has asserted his right to include this material in ScholarlyCommons@Penn. This book chapter is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn.edu/classics_papers/26
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