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Author:   Matthew C. Farmer (Haverford College, PA) ,  Jeremy B. Lefkowitz (Swarthmore College, PA)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Weight:   1.152kg
ISBN:  

9781119622888

ISBN 10:   1119622883
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   18 April 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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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).

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