A Companion to Aristophanes (eBook)

Matthew C. Farmer, Jeremy B. Lefkowitz (Herausgeber)

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2024 | 1. Auflage
464 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-119-62295-6 (ISBN)

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Provides a comprehensive and systematic treatment of the life and work of Aristophanes

A Companion to Aristophanes provides an invaluable set of foundational resources for undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars alike. More than a basic reference text, this innovative volume situates each of Aristophanes' surviving plays within discussion of key themes relevant to the study of the Aristophanic corpus. Throughout the Companion, an international panel of contributors incorporates material culture and performance context, offers methodological and theoretical insights into the study of Aristophanes, demonstrates the relevance of Aristophanes to modern life, and more.

Each chapter focused on a particular play is paired with a theme that is exemplified by that play, such as gender, sexuality, religion, ritual, and satire. With an emphasis on understanding Greek comedy and its ancient Athenian context, the text includes approaches to Aristophanes through criticism, performance, translation, and teaching to encourage and inform future work on Greek comedy.

Illustrating the vitality of contemporary engagement with one of the world's great literary figures, this comprehensive volume:

* Helps new readers and teachers of Aristophanes appreciate the broader importance of each play within the study of antiquity

* Offers sophisticated analyses of the Aristophanic corpus and its place in literary and cultural history

* Includes chapters focused on teaching Aristophanes, including one emphasizing performance

* Provides detailed syllabi and lesson plans for integrating the material into high school and college curricula

A Companion to Aristophanes is an essential resource for advanced students and instructors in Classics, Ancient Literature, Comparative Literature, and Ancient Drama and Theater. It is also a must-have reference for academic scholars, university libraries, non-specialist Classicists and other literary critics researching ancient drama, and sophisticated general readers interested in Aristophanes, Greek drama, classical Athens, or the ancient Mediterranean world.

Autor

MATTHEW C. FARMER is Associate Professor and Chair of Classics at Haverford College. His research focuses on Greek comedy, with a particular emphasis on the study of comic fragments and the relationships comedy forms with other genres. He is the author of Tragedy on the Comic Stage and Theopompus: Introduction, Translation, Commentary. JEREMY B. LEFKOWITZ is Associate Professor of Classics at Swarthmore College. He has published a number of studies on Aesop and the ancient fable tradition, and he is the co-editor, with Caterina Mordeglia, of La favola tra Oriente e Occidente (forthcoming from SISMEL editrice).

Inhalt

List of Illustrations xi

Notes on Contributors xii

Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction 1
Matthew C. Farmer and Jeremy B. Lefkowitz

Part I The World of Aristophanes 5

1 Aristophanes Among Athenians 7
Donald Lateiner and Rosaria Munson

2 The Staging of Old Comedy 21
A.C. Duncan

3 Meter and Song 35
Anne Mahoney

4 Style, Language, and Obscenity 46
Stephen E. Kidd

5 Images of Greek Comedy 56
Carl A. Shaw

6 Politics and Aristophanic Comedy 70
Edith Hall

Part II The Comedies of Aristophanes 89

7 Acharnians: Tragedy and Epic 91
Stephanie Nelson

8 Knights: Political Satire 107
Natalia Tsoumpra

9 Clouds: Intellectuals and Philosophy 127
Olimpia Imperio

10 Wasps: Rhetoric and the Law 149
Nikoletta Kanavou

11 Peace: War 165
Elena Fabbro

12 Birds: Utopia 183
David Konstan

13 Lysistrata: Sexuality 196
Kate Gilhuly

14 Women at the Thesmophoria: Religion and Ritual 212
Helene P. Foley

15 Frogs: Metaphor and Allegory 228
Anna A. Novokhatko

16 Assemblywomen: Gender 247
Gwendolyn Compton-Engle

17 Wealth: Economic Fantasies 262
Ralph M. Rosen

Part III The Fragments of Greek Comedy 279

18 Aristophanes' Lost Plays 281
Christian Orth

19 Aristophanes' Predecessors 292
Serena Perrone

20 Aristophanes' Contemporaries 304
Sarah N. Miles

21 Aristophanes' Successors 319
Anna Uhlig

Part IV Aristophanes and His Readers 337

22 Aristophanes Between Plato and Aristotle 339
Pierre Destrée

23 Ancient Scholarship on Aristophanes 352
Andreas Willi

24 Aristophanes in Roman Literature 368
Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill

25 Aristophanes and the Second Sophistic 381
Inger N.I. Kuin

26 Renaissance and Early Modern Reception of Aristophanes 393
Malika Bastin-Hammou

Part V Aristophanes Today 407

27 Performing Aristophanes 409
Philip Walsh

28 Teaching Aristophanes 423
Elizabeth Scharffenberger

Index 438

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Latein / Altgriechisch
• Schlagworte: Ancient & Classical History • Ancient & Classical Literature • Antike • Antike u. klassische Literatur • Aristophanes • Classical Greek Literature • Classical Studies • Geschichte • Geschichte des Altertums u. der klassischen Antike • History • Humanistische Studien • Klassische griechische Literatur
• ISBN-10: 1-119-62295-6 / 1119622956
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-62295-6 / 9781119622956