Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire

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).

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.

• Acknowledgements1 Ignorance and the Reception of Comedy in Antiquity Tom Hawkins and C. W. Marshall2 Juvenal and the Revival of Greek New Comedy at Rome Mathias Hanses3 Parrhesia and Pudenda: Speaking Genitals and Satiric Speech Julia Nelson Hawkins4 Dio Chrysostom and the Naked Parabasis Tom Hawkins5 Favorinus and the Comic Adultery Plot Ryan B. Samuels6 Comedies and Comic Actors in the Greek East: An Epigraphical Perspective Fritz Graf7 Plutarch, Epitomes, and Athenian Comedy C.W. Marshall8 Lucian’s Aristophanes: On Understanding Old Comedy in the Roman Imperial Period Ralph M. Rosen9 Exposing Frauds: Lucian and Comedy Ian C. Storey10 Revoking Comic License: Aristides’ Or. 29 and the Performance of Comedy Anna Peterson11 Aelian and Comedy: Four Studies C.W. Marshall12 The Menandrian World of Alciphron’s Letters Melissa Funke13 Two Clouded Marriages: Aristainetos’ Allusions to Aristophanes’ Clouds in Letters 2.3 and 2.12 Emilia A. BarbieroBibliographyIndex