Fragmenta Comica 2 Krates

English summary: This volume of the series Fragmenta Comica is devoted to one of the major names in the first generation of comic poets, Crates. Mentioned by Aristophanes in the Knights among his predecessors ill-treated by the public, and credited in Aristoteles' Poetics of a key-role within the history of the comic genre, Crates appears to have received significant attention in antiquity. Yet tradition has not been kind with him and the remains of his production are very scanty and...
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English summary: This volume of the series Fragmenta Comica is devoted to one of the major names in the first generation of comic poets, Crates. Mentioned by Aristophanes in the Knights among his predecessors ill-treated by the public, and credited in Aristoteles' Poetics of a key-role within the history of the comic genre, Crates appears to have received significant attention in antiquity. Yet tradition has not been kind with him and the remains of his production are very scanty and in many ways problematic. Almost half a century after the last monograph devoted to Crates, Serena Perrone offers a new close analysis of the testimonia and the sixty surviving fragments, translated and commented in detail. The picture that emerges is of a much more nuanced profile than previously described. German description: Krates, einer der grossen Dichter aus der ersten Generation antiker Komodiendichter, wurde bereits in der Poetik des Aristoteles eine Schlusselrolle in der Geschichte der Komodie zugewiesen. Doch die Uberlieferung meinte es nicht gut mit ihm. Sein Werk ist nur noch sparlich erhalten. Beinahe ein halbes Jahrhundert nach der letzten Monografie zu Krates, bietet Serena Perrone eine neue umfassende Analyse seines Schaffens. Die italienische Ubersetzung und Kommentierung der 60 erhaltenen Fragmente tragen wesentlich dazu bei, das Bild des Krates in der Forschung um zahlreiche neue Erkenntnisse zu erweitern.