The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy, edited by Martin Revermann

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The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy, edited by Martin Revermann

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edited by Martin Revermann

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• The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

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• New York, Cambridge University Press, 2014

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-493) and index

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Contents

Introduction / MARTIN REVERMANN -- Part I. Setting the Stage (in Athens and Beyond): 1. Defining the genre / DAVID KONSTAN ; 2. The rivals of Aristophanes and Menander / ZACHARY P. BILES ; 3. Fourth-century comedy before Menander / KEITH SIDWELL ; 4. Epicharmus and early Sicilian comedy / KATHRYN BOSHER ; 5. The iconography of comedy / ERIC CSAPO -- Part II. Comic Theatre: 6. Dramatic technique and Athenian comedy / C. W. MARSHALL ; 7. Character types / IAN RUFFELL ; 8. The language(s) of comedy / ANDREAS WILLI ; Part III. Central Themes: 9. Laughter / Stephen Halliwell ; 10. Utopianism / IAN RUFFELL ; 11. The Greek 'comic hero' / RALPH M. ROSEN ; 12. Social class / DAVID KAWALKO ROSELLI ; 13. Performing gender in Greek Old and New Comedy / HELENE FOLEY ; 14. Divinity and religious practice / MARTIN REVERMANN -- Part IV. Politics, Law and Social History: 15. The politics of Greek comedy / ALAN SOMMERSTEIN ; 16. Comedy and Athenian festival culture / EDITH HALL ; 17. Comedy and Athenian law / VICTORIA WOHL ; 18. Comedy and the social historian / SUSAN LAPE and ALFONSO MORENO -- Part V. Reception: 19. Attic comedy in the rhetorical and moralising traditions / RICHARD HUNTER ; 20. Contexts of reception in antiquity / SEBASTIANA NERVEGNA ; 21. The reception of Greek comedy in Rome / MICHAEL FONTAINE ; 22. The transmission of comic texts / NIGEL WILSON ; 23. Snapshots of Aristophanes and Menander : from spontaneous reception to belated reception study / GONDA VAN STEEN

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861734390

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24 cm

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xvii, 498 pages

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9780521760287

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2013050037

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40023995371

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(OCoLC)861734390