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.
Spis treści
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
O autorze
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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