Ancient Greek Comedy : : Genre – Texts – Reception / / ed. by Almut Fries, Dimitrios Kanellakis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Avdoulou, Eleni,; D’Angour, Armand,; Fountoulakis, Andreas,; Fries, Almut,; Hall, Edith,; Kanellakis, Dimitrios,; Konstantakos, Ioannis M.,; Kopp, Hans,; Markantonatos, Andreas,; Migliara, Alessandra,; Morosi, Francesco,; Nesselrath, Heinz-Günther,; Sidoti, Nello,; Silk, Michael,; Swallow, Peter,; Taplin, Oliver,; Tsoumpra, Natalia,
• HerausgeberIn: Fries, Almut,; Kanellakis, Dimitrios,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 101
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XV, 356 p.)

This volume, in honour of Angus M. Bowie, collects seventeen original essays on Greek comedy. Its contributors treat questions of origin, genre and artistic expression, interpret individual plays from different angles (literary, historical, performative) and cover aspects of reception from antiquity to the 20th century. Topics that have not received much attention so far, such as the prehistory of Doric comedy or music in Old Comedy, receive a prominent place. The essays are arranged in three sections: (1) Genre, (2) Texts and Contexts, (3) Reception. Within each section the chapters are as far as possible arranged in chronological order, according to historical time or to the (putative) dates of the plays under discussion. Thus readers will be able to construe their own diachronic and thematic connections, for example between the portrayal of stock characters in early Doric farce and developed Attic New Comedy or between different forms of comic reception in the fourth century BC. The book is intended for professional scholars, graduate and undergraduate students. Its wide range of subjects and approaches will appeal not only to those working on Greek comedy, but to anyone interested in Greek drama and its afterlife.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface: A Tribute to Angus Morton Bowie -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Texts and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Genre -- The Characters of Doric Comedy -- Connotations of ‘Comedy’ in Classical Athens -- Types and Functions of Para Prosdokian in Aristophanes – And What About Oxymoron? -- ‘Middle Comedy’: An Outdated Term or Still A Useful Notion? -- Glimpses of a Male World: Performing Masculinities in Menander -- Part II: Texts and Contexts -- Fathers and Sons in Clouds and Wasps -- Comic Kantharoi: The Fable of the Eagle and the Dung-Beetle in Aristophanes -- Imagining Space: Spatial Perception and the Gaze in Aristophanes’ Birds -- Comic Euboulia. Deliberation, Free Speech, and the Language of Oligarchy in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata -- Comic Pathways for Peace. Ritual Allegory and Choral Parabasis in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata -- The Musical Frogs in Frogs -- The Shifting Gender Identity of Dionysus in Aristophanes’ Frogs -- In Praise of Cario, the Nonpareil Comic Slave of Aristophanes’ Wealth -- Part III: Reception -- Evidence from Aristophanes for the Language and Style of Euripides -- Comic Vases and the First Spread of Greek Comedy into Italy -- ‘Paratragic Burlesques’ and Reperformances of Tragedies in the Fourth Century BCE -- Translating and Editing Aristophanes in the Nineteenth Century. Thomas Mitchell and John Hookham Frere -- List of Contributors -- List of publications by Angus M. Bowie -- References -- Index Locorum -- Index Nominum et Rerum