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MacDowell, Douglas Maurice was born on March 8, 1931 in London. Son of Maurice Alfred MacDowell and Dorothy Jean Allan.
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Aristophanes' comedies are famous for their comic characters and earthy humor. But they are also highly topical, with many contemporary political allusions easily missed today. This book provides students with a long needed accessible and essential introductory guide to the plays, focusing particularly on information about the Athens of the day.
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The plays of Aristophanes are the oldest comedies which still survive. They are famous for their comic characters, their fantastic plots, their farcical action, and their earthy humour. But they are also highly topical, full of comments, both comic and serious, on politics and other current affairs in classical Athens. This book provides an accessible introduction to Aristophanes' plays, focusing particularly on their relationship to Athenian politics and life, and to the effect that Aristophanes hoped to have on his audience. All passages quoted from them are given in new verse translations, and readers do not need any knowledge of Greek. But scholarly problems are not ignored, and specialists will find here both new suggestions and summaries of different interpretations with recent bibliographical information in the notes.
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Book annotation not available for this title. Title: The Law in Classical Athens Author: Macdowell, Douglas Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Publication Date: 1986/03/21 Number of Pages: 312 Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress: BL 99738320
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MacDowell, Douglas Maurice was born on March 8, 1931 in London. Son of Maurice Alfred MacDowell and Dorothy Jean Allan.
Bachelor, Oxford University, England, 1954. Master of Arts, Oxford University, England, 1958. Doctor of Letters, Oxford University, England, 1992.
Assistant lecturer, Greek and Latin Manchester (England) University, 1958—1961, lecturer, Greek and Latin, 1961—1968, senior lecturer, Greek and Latin, 1968—1970, reader, Greek and Latin, 1970—1971. Professor Greek Glasgow (Scotland) University, 1971—2001, professor emeritus, honorary research fellow, since 2001. Visiting fellow Merton College, Oxford, 1969.
Secretary Council University Classical Departments United Kingdom, 1974—1976. Chairman council Classical Association Scotland, 1976—1982. Vice president Scottish Hellenic Society, since 1976.
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Fellow: British Academy, Royal Society Edinburgh.