Abusive Mouths in Classical Athens

Informationen zum Autor Nancy Worman is Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Barnard College! Columbia University! and author of The Cast of Character: Style in Greek Literature (2002). Klappentext A fascinating study examining the imagery of the mouth in classical Athenian invective. Zusammenfassung In this fascinating study of the language of insult in classical Athens! Professor Worman demonstrates that the abuse of public speakers - particularly political leaders and dramatic poets - often uses the mouth as a focus for mockery! isolating it as a visible emblem of behaviours pilloried in the democratic arena. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The mouth and its uses in Homer, iambos, and tragedy; 2. Open mouths and abusive talk in Aristophanes; 3. Gluttonous speechifying in Euripides' Cyclops; 4. Crude talk and fancy fare in Plato; 5. Defamation and oral excess in Demosthenes and Aeschines; 6. The intemperate mouth in Aristotle and Theophrastus; Epilogue.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Worman, Nancy (Barnard College Worman, Worman Nancy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2008
• EAN: 9780521857871
• ISBN: 978-0-521-85787-1
• No. of pages: 398
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Language, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval