Playing in the Sun : Essays on the 70th Birthday of Bernhard Zimmermann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Novokhatko, Anna A.

Contributor:

Grethlein

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zimmermann, Bernhard, 1955-.

Greek drama.

Comedy.

Local Subjects:

Zimmermann, Bernhard, 1955-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (514 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2025.

Summary:

In the ancient world, theatre was one of the main factors of social interaction, spreading political, religious, cultural and socio-ethical concepts among the people, transmitting knowledge and thus uniting the diverse populations of cities and villages.

Contents:

Intro

Playing in the Sun: Ancient Theatre Between Disciplines

Preface

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Part I: Dramatic Texts: Form, Music, Narrative

Bacchylides' Ode 5 and Sophocles' Trachiniae: Lyric Poetry and Tragedy

Bibliography

On Misunderstanding Apollo: The Oracle and Its Consequences in Soph. O.R.

"And They Lived Happily Ever After"? A Tentative Taxonomy of (More or Less) Happy Endings in Euripides

1 Preliminary remarks

2 The bad guys (not always) thwarted, the good guys rewarded: some (almost) perfect happy endings

2.1 Telephus

2.2 Alcestis

2.3 Dictys

2.4 Andromache

2.5 Iphigenia among the Taurians

2.6 Helen

2.7 Ion

3 Good guys humiliated, then partially vindicated: some happier (but not happy) endings

3.1 Heracles

3.2 Oidipus

4 Problematic, or even 'faux', happy endings

4.1 Electra

4.2 Orestes

5 Hope deceived and thwarted - happy end aborted: Danaë

6 Concluding remarks

Fantastic Beasts and How to Use Them: Animal Characters and Choruses in Old Comedy

1 Animal tales, proto-comedy, and the Attic Märchenkomödie

2 The simplest plot: animals true to their physis

3 The expanded model: anthropomorphic animals

4 The animals of comic fantasy

Juxtaposing and Contrasting Modes of Speech Presentation in Aristophanes' Knights 624-690: Narrative Techniques, Performance, and Plot

1 Introduction

2 Modes of discourse presentation in the verbal exchange narrated in Knights 624-682

3 Modes of discourse in narrations of dialogues/ confrontations in Aristophanic comedies

4 Discourse modes and performance in Knights 624-682

5 The sausage-seller's narration as a plot turning point

A 'Metic' Prometheus in Aristophanes' Birds

Bibliography.

Ein neues Fragment des Komödiendichters Aristomenes

1 Einleitung

2 Der Zitatkontext: Kommentareinträge alexandrinischer Philologen zu einer Wendung des Eupolis

3 Text, Übersetzung und unvollständige Syntax (I): pe.. a.t.. oder t..? 3 Text, Übersetzung und unvollständige Syntax (I): pe.. a.t.. oder pe.. a.t..?

4 Übersetzung und unvollständige Syntax (II): was bedeutet hier .?

5 Das Metrum und der unmittelbare Kontext

6 Der weitere Kontext: Aristomenes' Dionysos asketes

7 Die Datierung von Aristomenes' Dionysos asketes

8 Komödie und Satyrspiel und die Entwicklung der späteren griechischen Komödie

9 Das neue Fragment in PCG and Fragmenta Comica

10 Schluss

Literatur

"Is Your Roof Leaking Anywhere?" Euripides' Danae Transformed Into Menander's Samia

Osservazioni sull'uso delle soluzioni anapestiche nei trimetri giambici di Filemone

1 Introduzione

2 Anapesti contenuti in una sola parola

2.1 Prima sede

2.2 Seconda sede

2.3 Terza sede

2.4 Quarta sede

2.6 Quinta sede

3 Anapesti contenuti in due o più parole o parti di parole

3.1 Prima sede

3.2 Seconda sede

3.3 Terza sede

3.4 Quarta sede

3.5 Quinta sede

4 Conclusioni

Bibliografia

Part II: Theatre, Society, Perception

The Audience in the Time of the Athenian Theatrocracy

1 Background remarks

2 The theatrocentricity of Athenian drama

3 Theorising judging in Athenian democracy

4 How audiences judged

5 The many-headed monster

6 Conclusion

Tür, Bühnenkran, Ekkyklema: Zu Aristophanes' Technik der Evokation des Imaginativen

Bibliographie

Remarks on the Ancient Theatre in Aegina

Dikaiopolis' Spatiotemporal Coordinates in Aristophanes' Acharnians

2 Civic versus festival time

3 Geopolitical versus geophysical space

4 Conclusion.

Bibliography

Spielen und Tanzen für die Demokratie. Zur politischen Funktion des Theaters in den „Fröschen" des Aristophanes

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4.1

4.2

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On Comedy, Football and (Once Again) the Impact of Theatre on Spectators' Reactions

1 James Graham's Dear England (2023)

2 'Generic expectations'

3 Aristophanes' Knights on the emotions of the theatre audience

4 Concluding remarks

Clio Smiles: Greek Comedy As and For Historiography

Meditation und Panegyrik in Brixen: Joseph Reschs Pastor bonus (1748)

1 Einführendes

2 Inhalt des Stücks

3 Der Pastor bonus als Meditationsspiel

4 Brixen und sein Hirte

"I Had a Little Nut-Tree"

Part III: Dramatic Texts and Theatre Through the Eyes of Ancient Scholars

Un teatro per l'impero. Le citazioni drammatiche in Plinio il Vecchio e Svetonio

2 Plinio il Vecchio

2.1 Eschilo (5x: NH 10.7, 10.86, 25.10-11, 37.31, 37.32)

2.2 Sofocle (5x: NH 7.109, 7.180, 18.65, 21.153, 37.40)

2.3 Euripide (4x: NH 22.80, 31.28, 37.31, 37.32)

2.4 Aristofane (2x: NH 21.29, 22.80)

2.5 Menandro (8x: NH 7.111, 13.13, 18.72, 20.252, 23.159, 30.7, 32.69, 37.106)

3 Svetonio

3.1 Euripide (2x: Jul. Caes. 30.5 = Eur. Phoen. 524-25

Aug. 25.4 = Eur. Phoen. 599)

3.2 Menandro (Vesp. 23.1 = Men. fr. 430 K.-A. (inc. fab.))

3.3 Adespota comica (2x: Aug. 99 = adesp. com. fr. *925 K.-A.

Claud. 1.1 = adesp. com. 926 K.-A.)

3.4 Adespota tragica (2x: Ner. 38.1 = adesp. trag. 513.1 Snell- Kannicht

Ner. 46.3 ~ adesp. trag. 8 Snell-Kannicht, Oedipus)

Julius Pollux on the Theatre (4.99-154)

Pollux, Onomasticon 4.99-154

Taking it on Trust?: Euripides and the Epistemological Tradition

Scholars on Comedians on Lyric Poets: Ar. Nub. 967 from Stesichorus to Didymus

2 The scholia on Ar. Nub. 967

3 The supplementary evidence

4 The problem of the source

5 The problem of the two versions

6 Phrynichus' role in the story

7 Gaps and uncertainties in P.Oxy. 1611

8 Chamaeleon's aporia

9 A new reconstruction of the scholiastic archetype

10 More on Aristophanes' text

11 More on Phrynichus' point

12 More on Eratosthenes' interests

13 Conclusion

Citazioni di Eschilo negli scholia all'Iliade

Where Narrative Meets Drama: argumentum as a Term for (Realistic) Fiction

1 Introduction: Why argumentum?

2 Argumentum as 'story'

3 Argumentum as untrue but probable story

3.1 Comedy

3.2 Drama more generally

3.3 'Drama' as Platonic narrative mimesis

Poetae comici satyrographi. Euanthius' griechische Komödiengeschichte in bikulturellem Kontext

1 Komödiengeschichtsschreibung und Satiretheorie

2 Euanthius' Komödiengeschichte

3 Die Konnotationen des Begriffs satyra

4 Die Konzeption von Euanthius' Komödiengeschichte

List of Contributors

General Index

Index of Passages.

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ISBN:

3-11-159480-7

9783111594804

OCLC:

1569123246