The spirit of Aristophanes : essays in honor of Jeffrey Henderson / edited by Dustin W. Dixon and Mary C. English.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

English, Mary C., editor.

Dixon, Dustin W., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristophanes--Influence.

Aristophanes.

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 207 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

Summary:

A wide-ranging collection of new studies of ancient literature and culture from fifth-century drama to the Roman novel. The essays use an array of approaches that will appeal to scholars and students interested in classical studies, gender and sexuality, literary history, performance and textual criticism. This volume has been prepared in tribute to Jeffrey Henderson, William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Greek Language and Literature Emeritus of Boston University and General Editor of the Loeb Classical Library.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Editors’ Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

A Note on the Text

Preface

1 Female Genitalia Onstage in Aristophanes

2 ‘Let Loose the Melodies of Holy Hymns’: Voice, Agency and Gender in Aristophanes’ Birds

3 Performing Ritual Sacrifice in Aristophanes’ Peace and Birds

4 Political Ambition and Poetry in Aristophanes’ Birds and Plato’s Aristophanes

5 Sophocles and Happy Endings

6 Heroism in the Middle in Sophocles’ Philoctetes

7 διδαγμάτων ἥδιστον: Storytelling and the Origin of Religion in the Sisyphus Fragment (43 Fr. 19 TrGF)

8 The Whetstone of Love: Helen’s Blemished Beauty

9 Virginity and the Post-mortem State of the Body: Reading Mary and Hippolytus in Dialogue

10 Literal Truth, Mythic Truth and Narrative in Longus’s Daphnis and Chloe

11 The Body’s Borders: Violation and the Visual in the Carmina Priapea

12 What Are the Goals of Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura?

13 Not So Funny After All: On Deconstructing (and Reconstructing) the Text of Petronius

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 1, 2026).

ISBN:

1-3995-1199-8

OCLC:

1453644070