Brill's Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-10963-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 579 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1089 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies

The present volume sets forth the main resources for the advancing student of Ancient Greek Comedy. An international roster of specialists contributes chapters organized into three sections: "Contexts": the intellectual, physical and socio-historical setting of Athenian Comedy; "History": the literary history of the Old, Middle and New periods; and "Elements": the text, language and formal components of the genre (including a comprehensive bibliography). This Companion is designed as a resource for understanding and interpreting the classics of Athenian Comedy from its inception through Menander. It will also be useful for navigating the principal corpora of texts, fragments and scholia that have been revised and augmented in recent years.This unique volume occupies the middle ground between short surveys and highly specialized scholarship.

Contributors include: W. Geoffrey Arnott, Angus Bowie, Eric Csapo, Gregory W. Dobrov, J. Richard Green, Stanley Ireland, Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, S. Douglas Olson, Alan H. Sommerstein, Ian Storey, Ralph M. Rosen,
Andreas Willi, Bernhard Zimmermann.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dobrov, Gregory

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors

I. Contexts
1. Greek Comedy and Her Critics, Gregory W. Dobrov
2. Comedy, Politics and Society, S. Douglas Olson
3. Greek Comedy: The Material Evidence, Richard Green
4. The Production and Performance of Greek Comedy in Antiquity, Eric Csapo
5. Myth and Ritual in Greek Comedy, Angus Bowie

II. History
6. Origins and Fifth-Century Comedy, Ian Storey
7. Aristophanes, Ralph Rosen
8. Middle Comedy, W. Geoffrey Arnott
9. New Comedy, Stanley Ireland

III. Elements
10. The History of the Text of Aristophanes, Alan H. Sommerstein
11. Comic Fragments: Transmission and Textual Criticism, H.-G. Nesselrath
12. The Structure and Meter of Greek Comedy, B. Zimmermann
13. The Language of Greek Comedy, Andreas Willi

Bibliography
Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gregory W. Dobrov is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Loyola University Chicago. His publications include Beyond Aristophanes: Transition and Diversity in Greek Comedy (Oxford, 1995), The City as Comedy: Society and Representation in Athenian Drama (Chapel Hill, 1997), and Figures of Play: Greek Drama and Metafictional Poetics (Oxford, 2001).