Wright (classics, U. of Exeter and Vassar College) tries to make sense of the many jokes about contemporary poets and poetry in fifth-century BC Athenian comedy, and asks what the plays can reveal abo
Some of the best evidence for the early development of literary criticism before Plato and Aristotle comes from Athenian Old Comedy. Playwrights such as Eupolis, Cratinus, Aristophanes and others wrot
