The Play of Language in Ancient Greek Comedy: Comic Discourse and Linguistic Artifices of Humour, from Aristophanes to Menander

Within this volume, aspects of linguistic humour in ancient Greek comedy are explored. A rich repertoire of verbal artifices and types of joke is analysed, with emphasis on their contribution to the creation of comic effect and the aesthetic functio

Kostas Apostolakis, University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece; Ioannis M. Konstantakos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.