Athenian comedy in the Roman Empire. (2015 copyright 2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by C.W. Marshall and Tom Hawkins.
• Editors: Marshall, C. W, 1968-; Hawkins, Tom, 1972-
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction: C. W. Marshall, University of British Columbia, Canada, and Tom Hawkins, Ohio State University, USA -- 2. Selectivity and survival: Aristophanes and Menander: Alan Sommerstein, University of Nottingham, UK -- 3. Understanding Old Comedy in the Roman Empire: Ralph M. Rosen, University of Pennsylvania, USA -- 4. Comic papyri: Susan A. Stephens, Stanford University, USA -- 5. Comedies and comic actors in the Greek East: an epigraphical perspective: Fritz Graf, Ohio State University, USA -- 6. Actors' repertory and 'new' comedies under the Roman Empire: Sebastiana Nervegna, University of Sydney, Australia -- 7. Natio comoeda est: Juvenal, Menander, and the Revival of Greek New Comedy at Rome: Mathias Hanses, Columbia University, USA -- 8. Parrhesia and Pudenda: Genital Pathology and Satiric Speech, from Old Comedy to Juvenal: Julia Nelson Hawkins, Ohio State University, USA -- 9. Lucian and Old Comedy: Ian Storey, Trent University, Canada -- 10. Comic Eunuchism and the Adultery Plot in the Biographical Tradition of the Eunuch Sophist Favorinus: Ryan Samuels, Harvard University, USA -- 11. Comedy Repurposed: Evidence for Comic Performances in the Second Sophistic and Aristides' On the Banning of Comedy: Anna Peterson, Loyola University, USA -- 12. Dio Chrysostom and the Naked Parabasis: Tom Hawkins, Ohio State University, USA -- 13. New Comic Stock Characters in Alciphron's Letters: Melissa Funke, University of British Columbia, Canada -- 14. Aelian and Comedy: C. W. Marshall, University of British Columbia, Canada -- 15. Two Clouded Marriages: Aristainetos' Allusions to Aristophanes' Clouds in Letters 2.3 and 2.12: Emilia A. Barbiero, University of Toronto, Canada -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (320 pages)
• Subjects: 882.0109; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Greek drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism; Latin drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism; Classical literature -- Greek influences; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical; DRAMA / Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Drama -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Literary Criticism -- Ancient & Classical; Classical history / classical civilisation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781472588852; 1472588851
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