Greek Comic Poetry

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RESUMO: Transcrição, edição e tradução de fragmentos de poemas épicos e cômicos da Grécia antiga, seguidos das Vidas de Homero; edição bilíngue. Prefácio do Prof. Alberto Bernabé Pajares. (ISBN 978-85-7876-040-3).

ABSTRACT: Transcription, edition and translation into Portuguese of the fragments of ancient Greek epic and comic poetry, followed by the Lives of Homer; bilingual edition. Preface by Prof Alberto Bernabé Pajares. (ISBN 978-85-7876-040-3). For a more detailed summary of the book's content, see the English abstract above.

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It is the current scholarly belief that the agōn (ἀγὼν λόγων), one of the constitutive structural elements of Old Comedy, which is already curtailed in Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae and is further reduced in Plutus, eventually dies out during the period of Middle Comedy. Yet, the recent research on the comic genre has demonstrated that practically all traits of Old Comedy do continue to exist beyond Aristophanes, experiencing an intermittent presence and a fluctuating degree of intensity; in short, nothing ever seems to evanesce or completely die out in Greek Comedy. Accordingly, the present contribution challenges the view that agōn dies out after Aristophanes and argues that, despite the loss of agōn's metrical structure (which can reasonably be regarded as an expected modification within the era's sweeping changes), agōn as an impactful dramaturgic tool continues to exist during the period of Middle Comedy.