Athenian comedy in the Roman Empire edited by C.W. Marshall and Tom Hawkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marshall, C. W., 1968- editor.

Hawkins, Tom, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek drama (Comedy)--Rome.

Greek drama (Comedy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

London Bloomsbury Academic 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing

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

Contents:

Acknowledgements

1. Ignorance and the Reception of Comedy in Antiquity

Tom Hawkins and C. W. Marshall

2. Juvenal and the Revival of Greek New Comedy at Rome

Mathias Hanses

3. Parrhesia and Pudenda: Genital Pathology and Satiric Speech

Julia Nelson Hawkins

4. Dio Chrysostom and the Naked Parabasis

Tom Hawkins

5. Favorinus and the Comic Adultery Plot

Ryan Samuels

6. Comedies and Comic Actors in the Greek East: An Epigraphical Perspective

Fritz Graf

7. Plutarch, Epitomes, and Athenian Comedy

C. W. Marshall

8. Lucian's Aristophanes: On Understanding Old Comedy in the Roman Imperial Period

Ralph M. Rosen

9. Exposing Frauds: Lucian and Comedy

Ian C. Storey

10. Revoking Comic License: Aristides' Or. 29 and the Performance of C Comedy

Anna Peterson

11. Aelian and Comedy: Four Studies

12. The Menandrian world of Alciphron's Letters

Melissa Funke

13. Two Clouded Marriages: Aristainetos' Allusions to Aristophanes' Clouds in Letters 2.3 and 2.12

Emilia A. Barbiero

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9781474256285

1474256287

9781472588869

147258886X

OCLC:

918892705