Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

Athenian comedy is firmly entrenched in the classical canon, but imperial authors debated, dissected and redirected comic texts, plots and language of Aristophanes, Menander, and their rivals in ways that reflect the non-Athenocentric, pan-Mediterranean performance culture of the imperial era. Although the reception of tragedy beyond its own contemporary era has been studied, the legacy of Athenian comedy in the Roman world is less well understood.This volume offers the first expansive treatment of the reception of Athenian comedy in the Roman Empire. These engaged and engaging studies examine the lasting impact of classical Athenian comic drama. Demonstrating a variety of methodologies and scholarly perspectives, sources discussed include papyri, mosaics, stage history, epigraphy and a broad range of literature such as dramatic works in Latin and Greek, including verse satire, essays, and epistolary fiction.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-11-19
Mått:150 x 231 x 15 mm
Vikt:469 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781472588838

Utforska kategorier

Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Forntidens historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Tom Hawkins is Associate Professor of Classics at Ohio State University, USA, and the author of Iambic Poetics in the Roman Empire (2014).C. W. Marshall is Professor of Greek at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His publications include The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy (2006), Classics and Comics (2011) and No Laughing Matter (Bloomsbury, 2012) and The Structure and Performance of Euripides' Helen (2014).

Recensioner i media

Marshall and Hawkins have assembled a diverse and stimulating collection of essays, which will prove to be a valuable resource for future work in this area.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements1. Ignorance and the Reception of Comedy in AntiquityTom Hawkins and C. W. Marshall2. Juvenal and the Revival of Greek New Comedy at RomeMathias Hanses3. Parrhesia and Pudenda: Genital Pathology and Satiric SpeechJulia Nelson Hawkins4. Dio Chrysostom and the Naked ParabasisTom Hawkins5. Favorinus and the Comic Adultery PlotRyan Samuels6. Comedies and Comic Actors in the Greek East: An Epigraphical PerspectiveFritz Graf7. Plutarch, Epitomes, and Athenian ComedyC. W. Marshall8. Lucian’s Aristophanes: On Understanding Old Comedy in the Roman Imperial PeriodRalph M. Rosen9. Exposing Frauds: Lucian and Comedy Ian C. Storey10. Revoking Comic License: Aristides’ Or. 29 and the Performance of C ComedyAnna Peterson11. Aelian and Comedy: Four StudiesC. W. Marshall12. The Menandrian world of Alciphron’s LettersMelissa Funke13. Two Clouded Marriages: Aristainetos’ Allusions to Aristophanes’ Clouds in Letters 2.3 and 2.12Emilia A. Barbiero