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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.>
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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: Speaking Genitals and Satiric Speech
Julia Nelson Hawkins
4 Dio Chrysostom and the Naked Parabasis
Tom Hawkins
5 Favorinus and the Comic Adultery Plot
Ryan B. 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 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
Bibliography
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Tom Hawkins is Associate Professor of Classics at Ohio State University, USA, and the author of
Iambic Poetics in the Roman Empire (2014).
C. W. Marshall is Professor of Greek at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His publications include
The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy (2006),
Classics and Comics (2011) and
No Laughing Matter (Bloomsbury, 2012) and
The Structure and Performance of Euripides' Helen (2014).
