Alessi
Subtitle: testimonianze e frammenti
By: testo, traduzione e commento a cura di Felice Stama ; appendice, Thurii, dalla fondazione alla metà del IV secolo a.C., a cura di Leonardo Di Vasto
Contributors: Stama, Felice, editor; Alexis, approximately 372 B.C.-270 B.C.; Alexis, approximately 372 B.C.-270 B.C.
Publisher: Edizioni Aicc
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Castrovillari
Language: ita; grc
Number of pages: 646
ISBN-13: 9788890844669
Subjects: Translations into Italian; Greek drama (Comedy); Textual Criticism
Description: "Lived between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, Alessi was one of the most representative and prolific authors of the so-called Attic comedy 'in the middle'. In the Introduction to this volume the aspects of general character concerning the life and the dramaturgical activity of the playwright are discussed; follow analysis, commentary and translation of his surviving theatrical production (including 138 titles, 339 fragments of sure attribution and 2 fragments of dubious authenticity), which, on the one hand, recalls the poetics of Aristophanes, at the other he preaches the bourgeois comedy of Menander. An appendix on the history (from its foundation until the IV century a.C.) of the magnogreca town of Thurii, according to some ancient sources of Alessi's homeland, has been edited by Leonardo Di Vasto."--Translated from back cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-624) and indexes.

Original fragments in Ancient Greek with parallel Italian translation; introduction and critical matter in Italian.