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The Origin of Attic Comedy was originally published in 1934. Its author, Francis Macdonald Cornford (1874-1943), was Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Beginning with Aristotle's observation that from the earliest stage Attic Comedy had 'certain definite forms', Cornford shows that these forms are clearly observable in the plays of Aristophanes and that they derived from a ritual drama common to both tragedy and comedy. Cornford was surprised by his own conclusions and his enquiries led him far from his original view that Aristophanic Comedy was composed of loosely connected and foreign sources. Combining a close examination of the eleven extant plays of Aristophanes and a broad treatment of the relationship between tragedy and comedy, this book will continue to merit review as a robust study of the origins of ancient Greek comedy.

Collection of essays: PART I. INORGANIC CHEMISTRY The weighting game Slow burn The element of perfection Welcome, stranger! Death in the laboratory To tell a chemist PART II. NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY The evens have it PART III. ORGANIC CHEMISTRY You too can speak Gaelic PART IV. BIOCHEMISTRY The haste-makers Life's bottleneck The egg and wee That's life Not as we know it PART V. GEOCHEMISTRY Recipe for a planet No more ice ages? PART VI. GENERAL The nobelmen of science The Isaac winners

This translation and edition of the writings of young Marx by two scholars, one an outstanding philosopher, the other a specialist in German literature, marks a significant contribution to Marxian studies.