Slaves and slavery in ancient Greek comic drama / edited by Ben Akrigg and Rob Tordoff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Akrigg, Ben.

Tordoff, Rob

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Comedy).

Slavery in literature.

Physical Description:

xv, 271 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Contents:

1. Introduction: slaves and slavery in ancient Greek comedy Rob Tordoff

2. Slaves and politics in early Aristophanic comedy S. Douglas Olson

3. Slavery, drama and the alchemy of identity in Aristophanes Susan Lape

4. Slaves in the fragments of old comedy Donald Sells

5. Aristophanes, slaves and history Ben Akrigg

6. A comedy of errors: the comic slave in Greek art Kelly Wrenhaven

7. Menander's slaves: the banality of violence David Konstan

8. Coping with punishment: the social networking of slaves in Menander Cheryl Cox

9. Sex slaves in new comedy C. W. Marshall

10. 'Phlyax' slaves: from vase to stage? Kathryn Bosher

11. Tokens of identity in Menander's Epitrepontes: slaves, citizens and in-betweens Christina Vester.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

ISBN:

1107008557

OCLC:

798437858

Publisher Number:

99953703791