Antonietta Gostoli & Bernhard Zimmermann 
Nuove volute di versi 
Poesia e musica nella commedia greca di V e IV sec. a.C

The contributions collected in this volume deal with the relation between Comedy and Music, in the Greek sense of ‘art of the Muses’. The volume offers an investigation on the metres and rhythms of poetic texts, on dance, on sociological aspects, on the psychagogical function of music itself, on the perceptions and theories that are transmitted to us from ancient sources. In the various essays a central role is played by Aristophanes, playwright and an expert music critic, animated by a negative prejudice towards the ‘New Music’, the poetic-musical revolution that influenced the dithyramb and the nomos, and then also the lyric sections of the tragedy.

About the author

Michele Napolitano insegna Letteratura greca presso l’Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale. Si occupa principalmente di teatro attico di quinto secolo, e specialmente di commedia e di dramma satiresco.