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Thucydides Mythistoricus. E-book. Formato PDF
Francis Macdonald Cornford
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
The title of this book needs a word of explanation, if not of apology; for to any one who is accustomed to think of Thucydides as typically prosaic, and nothing if not purely historical, the epithet Mythistoricus may seem to carry a note of challenge, or even of paradox. But the sense in which the expression has here...
The Origin of Attic Comedy. E-book. Formato PDF
Francis Macdonald Cornford
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
Aristotle observes that at the date from which the record of comic poets begins, Attic Comedy had already 'certain definite forms.' The hypothesis put forward in this book is that these traditional 'forms,' still clearly traceable in the constant features of the Aristophanic play, were inherited from a ritual drama,...