Broken laughter
Subtitle: select fragments of Greek comedy
By: edited with introduction, commentary, and translation, S. Douglas Olson
Contributors: Olson, S. Douglas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780199287857
Subjects: Greek drama (Comedy); Quotations, Greek; Greek drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism
Notes: Doric comedy --  Attic "old comedy" -- "Middle" and "new comedy"  -- The reception of other poetry -- Politics and politicians -- Philosophy and philosophers -- Food and dining -- Wine and symposia -- Women -- Aspects of Daily Life -- Appendix I : epigraphic evidence for the chronology of Attic comedy -- Appendix II : Conspectus numerorum -- Appendix III : the poets -- Appendix IV : translations of the fragments 

Includes bibliographical references (p. [xii]-xvi) and indexes

Translated from the Ancient Greek