Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy

Herausgeber: Fontaine, Michael; Scafuro, Adele C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy marks the first comprehensive introduction to and reference work for the unified study of ancient comedy. From its birth in Greece to its end in Rome, from its Hellenistic to its Imperial receptions, no topic is neglected. The 41 essays offer cutting-edge guides through comedy's immense terrain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 910
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 175mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1474g
• ISBN-13: 9780199743544
• ISBN-10: 0199743541
• Artikelnr.: 40185019

Autorenporträt

Michael Fontaine is Associate Professor of Classics and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Cornell University. He has published widely on Latin literature, especially Roman Comedy, and is the author of Funny Words in Plautine Comedy (Oxford University Press 2010). Adele C. Scafuro is Professor of Classics at Brown University. She has published numerous essays on Greek law, epigraphy, and drama, and is the author of The Forensic Stage. Settling Disputes in Graeco-Roman New Comedy (CUP 1997) and most recently, a translation, Demosthenes. Speeches 39-49 (U. of Texas 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction. Ancient Comedy: The Longue Durée
* Part One: Greek Comedy
* I. Beginnings
* 1. In Search of the Essence of Old Comedy: From Aristotle's Poetics
to Zielinksi, Cornford and Beyond (Jeffrey Rusten)
* 2. Performing Comedy in the Fifth through Early Third Centuries (Eric
Csapo)
* 3. Dionysiac Festivals in Athens and the Financing of Comic
Performances: Choregia and Democracy (Andronike Makres)
* II. The Greek Comedians and their Plays
* 4. The First Poets of Old Comedy (Ian Storey)
* 5. The Last Laugh: Eupolis, Strattis, and Plato against Aristophanes
(Mario Telò)
* 6. Aristophanes (Bernard Zimmermann)
* 7. Comedy in the Fourth Century I: Mythological Burlesques (Ioannis
M. Konstantakos)
* 8. Comedy in the Fourth Century II: Politics and Domesticity (Jeffrey
Henderson)
* 9. Comedy in the Late Fourth and Early Third Centuries BCE (Adele C.
Scafuro)
* 10. Menander (Adele C. Scafuro)
* 11. Reconstructing Menander (Alain Blanchard)
* 12. Crossing Genres: Comedy, Tragedy, and Satyr Play (Johanna Hanink)
* 13. Crossing Conceptual Worlds: Greek Comedy and Philosophy (David
Konstan)
* III. Attic Comedy and Society
* 14. The Politics of Comic Athens (David Rosenbloom)
* 15. Law and Greek Comedy (Emiliano J. Buis)
* 16. Religion and the Gods in Greek Comedy (Scott Scullion)
* IV. The Diffusion of Comedy in the Hellenistic World
* 17. The Diffusion of Comedy from the Age of Alexander to the
Beginning of the Roman Empire (Brigitte Le Guen)
* 18. Hellenistic Mime and its Reception in Rome (Costas Panayotakis)
* Part Two: Roman Comedy
* I. Beginnings
* 19. The Beginnings of Roman Comedy (Peter Brown)
* 20. Festivals, Producers, Theatrical Spaces, and Records (George
Fredric Franko)
* 21. Plautus between Greek Comedy and Atellan Farce: Assessments and
Reassessments (Antonis K. Petrides)
* II. The Roman Comedians and their Plays
* 22. Plautus' Dramatic Predecessors and Contemporaries in Rome
(Wolfgang David Cirilo De Melo)
* 23. Plautus and Terence in Performance (Erica M. Bexley)
* 24. Metrics and Music (Marcus Deufert)
* 25. Prologue(s) and Prologi (Boris Dunsch)
* 26. Between Two Paradigms: Plautus (Michael Fontaine)
* 27. The Terentian Reformation: From Menander to Alexandria (Michael
Fontaine)
* 28. The Language of the Palliata (Evangelos Karakasis)
* 29. Tragedy, Para-tragedy and Roman Comedy (Gesine Manuwald)
* III. Roman Comedy and Society
* 30. Roman Comedy and the Social Scene (Erich Gruen)
* 31. Law and Roman Comedy (Jan Felix Gaertner)
* 32. Religion in Roman Comedy (Boris Dunsch)
* Part Three: Transmission and Ancient Reception
* 33. 'Introduction' to Aristophanea (Nigel Wilson)
* 34. Later Greek Comedy in Later Antiquity (Heinz-Günther Nesselrath)
* 35. The Rebirth of a Codex: Virtual Work on the Ambrosian Palimpsest
of Plautus (Walter Stockert)
* 36. The Transmission of Terence (Benjamin Victor)
* 37. Graphic Comedy: Menandrian Mosaics and Terentian Miniatures
(Sebastiana Nervegna)
* 38. Greek Comedy, the Novel, and Epistolography (Regina Höschele)
* 39. Roman Comedy in the Second Sophistic (Regine May)
* 40. The Reception of Plautus in Antiquity (Rolando Ferri)
* 41. Aelius Donatus and His Commentary on Terence's Comedies
(Chrysanthi Demetriou)
* Appendices
* 1. New Texts: Greek Comic Papyri 1973-2012 (Eftychia Bathrellou)
* 2. Post-Menandrian Comic Poets: An Overview of the Evidence and a
Checklist (Ben Millis)