Product Description: In The Newest Sappho Anton Bierl and Andre Lardinois have edited 21 papers of world-renowned Sappho scholars dealing with the new papyrus fragments of Sappho that were published in 2014. This set of papyrus fragments, the greatest find of Sappho fragments since the beginning of the 20th century, provides significant new readings and additions to five previously known songs of Sappho (frs...read more

Product Description: Die Reihe MythosEikonPoiesis beginnt mit der Veröffentlichung der Beiträge einer internationalen Tagung zu Augst bei Basel, welche grundlegend die Interdependenz von Mythos, Ritual sowie der griechischen Literatur in zahlreichen Genera (Homer, Lyrik, Vorsokratik, Tragödie, Komödie, Satyrspiel, Geschichtsschreibung, Platon, hellenistische Dichtung, Liebesroman) hinsichtlich der textlichen Struktur untersuchte...read more

Product Description: In this groundbreaking study, Anton Bierl uses recent approaches in literary and cultural studies to investigate the chorus of Old Comedy. After an extensive theoretical introduction that also serves as a general introduction to the dramatic chorus from the comic vantage point, a close reading of Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae shows that ritual is indeed present in both the micro- and macrostructure of Attic comedy, not as a fossilized remnant of the origins of the genre but as part of a still existing performative choral culture...read more

Product Description: The series MythosEikonPoiesis begins with the publication of contributions to an international conference held at Castelen-Augst near Basle. The conference laid new foundations in examining the interdependence of myth, ritual and Greek literature in many different genres (Homeric epic, lyric poetry, Presocratic and Platonic philosophy, tragedy, comedy, satyr plays, historiography, Hellenistic poetry, and the novel) with regard to their textual structure and poetics...read more

Product Description: In Greek comedy the chorus plays a fundamental role with regard to a better understanding of the dramatic material and the heightening of the comic effect. However, it also reflects the influence of ritual behavior so typical of Greek tragedy.