A Companion to Aristophanes (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Farmer, Matthew C.; Lefkowitz, Jeremy B.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a comprehensive and systematic treatment of the life and work of Aristophanes A Companion to Aristophanes provides an invaluable set of foundational resources for undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars alike. More than a basic reference text, this innovative volume situates each of Aristophanes' surviving plays within discussion of key themes relevant to the study of the Aristophanic corpus. Throughout the Companion, an international panel of contributors incorporates material culture and performance context, offers methodological and theoretical insights into the study of Aristophanes, demonstrates the relevance of Aristophanes to modern life, and more. Each chapter focused on a particular play is paired with a theme that is exemplified by that play, such as gender, sexuality, religion, ritual, and satire. With an emphasis on understanding Greek comedy and its ancient Athenian context, the text includes approaches to Aristophanes through criticism, performance, translation, and teaching to encourage and inform future work on Greek comedy. Illustrating the vitality of contemporary engagement with one of the world's great literary figures, this comprehensive volume: * Helps new readers and teachers of Aristophanes appreciate the broader importance of each play within the study of antiquity * Offers sophisticated analyses of the Aristophanic corpus and its place in literary and cultural history * Includes chapters focused on teaching Aristophanes, including one emphasizing performance * Provides detailed syllabi and lesson plans for integrating the material into high school and college curricula A Companion to Aristophanes is an essential resource for advanced students and instructors in Classics, Ancient Literature, Comparative Literature, and Ancient Drama and Theater. It is also a must-have reference for academic scholars, university libraries, non-specialist Classicists and other literary critics researching ancient drama, and sophisticated general readers interested in Aristophanes, Greek drama, classical Athens, or the ancient Mediterranean world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119622956
• Artikelnr.: 70175352

Autorenporträt

MATTHEW C. FARMER is Associate Professor and Chair of Classics at Haverford College. His research focuses on Greek comedy, with a particular emphasis on the study of comic fragments and the relationships comedy forms with other genres. He is the author of Tragedy on the Comic Stage and Theopompus: Introduction, Translation, Commentary. JEREMY B. LEFKOWITZ is Associate Professor of Classics at Swarthmore College. He has published a number of studies on Aesop and the ancient fable tradition, and he is the co-editor, with Caterina Mordeglia, of La favola tra Oriente e Occidente (forthcoming from SISMEL editrice).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations xi Notes on Contributors xii Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1 Matthew C. Farmer and Jeremy B. Lefkowitz Part I The World
of Aristophanes 5 1 Aristophanes Among Athenians 7 Donald Lateiner and
Rosaria Munson 2 The Staging of Old Comedy 21 A.C. Duncan 3 Meter and Song
35 Anne Mahoney 4 Style, Language, and Obscenity 46 Stephen E. Kidd 5
Images of Greek Comedy 56 Carl A. Shaw 6 Politics and Aristophanic Comedy
70 Edith Hall Part II The Comedies of Aristophanes 89 7 Acharnians: Tragedy
and Epic 91 Stephanie Nelson 8 Knights: Political Satire 107 Natalia
Tsoumpra 9 Clouds: Intellectuals and Philosophy 127 Olimpia Imperio 10
Wasps: Rhetoric and the Law 149 Nikoletta Kanavou 11 Peace: War 165 Elena
Fabbro 12 Birds: Utopia 183 David Konstan 13 Lysistrata: Sexuality 196 Kate
Gilhuly 14 Women at the Thesmophoria: Religion and Ritual 212 Helene P.
Foley 15 Frogs: Metaphor and Allegory 228 Anna A. Novokhatko 16
Assemblywomen: Gender 247 Gwendolyn Compton-Engle 17 Wealth: Economic
Fantasies 262 Ralph M. Rosen Part III The Fragments of Greek Comedy 279 18
Aristophanes' Lost Plays 281 Christian Orth 19 Aristophanes' Predecessors
292 Serena Perrone 20 Aristophanes' Contemporaries 304 Sarah N. Miles 21
Aristophanes' Successors 319 Anna Uhlig Part IV Aristophanes and His
Readers 337 22 Aristophanes Between Plato and Aristotle 339 Pierre Destrée
23 Ancient Scholarship on Aristophanes 352 Andreas Willi 24 Aristophanes in
Roman Literature 368 Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill 25 Aristophanes and the
Second Sophistic 381 Inger N.I. Kuin 26 Renaissance and Early Modern
Reception of Aristophanes 393 Malika Bastin-Hammou Part V Aristophanes
Today 407 27 Performing Aristophanes 409 Philip Walsh 28 Teaching
Aristophanes 423 Elizabeth Scharffenberger Index 438