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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967395603321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

ISBN

9781474256285

1474256287

9781472588869

147258886X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Classificazione

LIT004190DRA006000

Disciplina

792

882.010917

Soggetti

Greek drama (Comedy) - Rome

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di contenuto

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 -- C. W. Marshall -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

"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