There are two main blocks in this volume, one dedicated to comedy and the other, more extensive, to tragedy.
Comedy and everything related to the realisation of this genre so popular among the Greeks is at the forefront of the comediographers' concerns from two fundamental perspectives: one external to the literary work, which has to do with the social and professional conditions that result from comic production, and the other intrinsic, which deals with the origins and progress of the genre, the definition of the contemporary stage of Aristophanes, the poets' suggestions for the improvement and dignification of the art.No less important was the pari passu comparison between Aeschylus and Euripides, which resulted in a perspective on the evolution of tragedy, the modernisation, in accordance with the sophistic culture and intellectuality of the second half of the 5th century BC, of the most representative genre of the time. The differences in taste, objectives and means of realisation of two specific moments of the same dramatic form stand out, in this confrontation, with perfect clarity. However, not only the two great names of art are analysed in detail. A whole world of other figures emerges from an anonymous but active backdrop, which completed the scene from which the charismatic personalities of Greek tragedy were projected with greater brilliance.
PublishedMarch 13, 2026SeriesCopyright (c) 2026 Coimbra University PressThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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ISBN-13 (15)978-989-26-2821-9doi10.14195/978-989-26-2821-9
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