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Title: Greek Comedy and Ideology by David Konstan ISBN: 0-19-509294-5 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $60.00

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Comment: This is a seminal study, one of the first major revisionist attempts, which established that Greek Comedy continued embracing an ideological, i.e. political, agenda. Menander's plays, according to Konstan, often exhibit a structural fissure which stems from the gap between social function and individual motivation. Although they end up reasserting the communality of the "asty", the very artificiality of their resolutions leaves many of the major ethical dilemmas hanging, thus allowing for an expanded understanding of the relation between the moral agency of women and men and the constraints of social status. Konstan's book is rightfully under way of acquiring classic status. It may not be the ideal starting point for the non-initiant, nevertheless it is certainly suitable for anybody generally curious about the interplay between literature and society in the Greek world- and beyond.