Ancient Comedy and Reception. Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson

1099 Pages·2013·25.785 MB·English

by  S. Douglas Olson (ed.)

AncientComedyandReception

Ancient Comedy
and Reception
EssaysinHonorofJeffreyHenderson
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S.DouglasOlson
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Foreword
Thisvolumerepresentsanattempttooffernotasystematichistoryofthecomicgenre
fromGraeco-Romantimestotoday,butaseriesofinterconnectedstudiesofsomeof
themostimportantmomentsandfiguresinthathistory.Thesestudiesarededicated
toJeffreyHenderson,whoseMaculateMuse(1975)andcriticaleditionandcommen-
taryonAristophanes’Lysistrata(1987)—amongothermajorscholarlycontributions—
havedecisivelyshapedthewayAthenian“OldComedy”isreadandreceivedtoday.
ThevolumewasconceivedbyWolfgangHaase,ProfessorofClassicalStudiesat
Boston University, who set its intellectual and geographic limits, issued the vast
majorityoftheinvitationstocontribute,establishedthestyle-sheetandbasicformat-
tingstandards,anddidpreliminaryeditorialworkonanumberofindividualpieces.
WhenHaasewasforcedtowithdrawfromtheprojectforreasonsofillhealthatthe
end of 2012, I took over as general editor. My time and energy has been devoted
primarily to line-editing material already in hand, making further organizing and
formatting decisions and applying them throughout, and shepherding the project
throughthepress.Iwouldliketoexpressmygratitudetotheindividualauthorsfor
consistentlyandcheerfullymeetingthemanydeadlinessettheminthecourseofthis
process. I would also like to thank Michiel Klein Swormink, De Gruyter’s Editorial
DirectorfortheHumanities(NorthAmerica),andourprojecteditorEmilyHough,for
theirassistanceinbringingthevolumeintoprint.
S. DouglasOlson
Freiburg,August2013

Contents
S.DouglasOlson
Foreword V
AncientComedyandReceptions
ZacharyP.Biles
ExchangingMetaphorsinCratinusandAristophanes 3
RalphM.Rosen
ComicParrhêsiaandtheParadoxesofRepression 13
JamesRobson
SlippingOneIn:TheIntroductionofObsceneLexicalItemsinAristophanes 29
Heinz-GüntherNesselrath
AncientComedyandHistoriography:AristophanesMeetsHerodotus 51
OliverTaplin
EpiphanyofaSeriousDionysusinaComedy? 62
GiuseppeMastromarco
ToponimieimmaginariosessualenellaLisistratadiAristofane 69
MarkAlonge
Dionysus’ChoiceinFrogsandAristophanes’ParaeneticPedigree 82
J.R.Green
TwoPhaedras:EuripidesandAristophanes? 94
CharlesPlatter
Plato’sAristophanes 132
AlanH.Sommerstein
Menander’sSamiaandthePhaedraTheme 167
MichaelFontaine
DynamicsofAppropriationinRomanComedy:Menander’sKolaxin
ThreeRomanReceptions(Naevius,PlautusandTerence’sEunuchus) 180
VIII Contents
SimoneBeta
LiberalingualoquemurludisLiberalibus:
GnaeusNaeviusasaLatinAristophanes? 203
EckardLefèvre
PlautusunddieTechnikendesImprovisationstheaters 223
BorisDunsch
Legeduravivontmulieres:Syra’sComplaintabouttheSexualDoubleStandard
(PlautusMerc.817–29) 235
KeithSidwell
“LettingItAllHangOut”:Lucian,OldComedyandtheOriginsof
RomanSatire 259
IanRuffell
OldComedyatRome:RhetoricalModelandSatiricalProblem 275
NiallW.Slater
InventingEverything:ComicandPerformativeSourcesof
Graeco-RomanFiction 309
StevenD.Smith
FromDramatoNarrative:TheReceptionofComedyintheAncientNovel 322
SebastianaNervegna
GreekCultureasImages:Menander’sComediesandTheirPatrons
intheRomanWestandtheGreekEast 346
NiallW.Slater
TheEvidenceoftheZeugmaSynaristosaiMosaicforImperial
PerformanceofMenander 366
Medieval,RenaissanceandEarlyModernReceptions
LauraKendrick
MedievalVernacularVersionsofAncientComedy:GeoffreyChaucer,
EustacheDeschamps,VitalisofBloisandPlautus’Amphitryon 377
LudovicaRadif
Aristofanemascherato:Unsecolo(1415–1504)difortunae‘sfortuna’ 397
Contents IX
HélèneCasanova-Robin
L’influencedePlautesurladéfinitionducomiquechezGiovanniPontano 410
JohnNassichuk
Strepsiades’LatinVoice:TwoRenaissanceTranslationsof
Aristophanes’Clouds 427
FrancescaSchironi
TheTricksterOnstage:TheCunningSlavefromPlautusto
Commediadell’Arte 447
RobertS.Miola
AristophanesinEngland,1500–1660 479
MaikGoth
ExaggeratingTerence’sAndria:Steele’sTheConsciousLovers,Bellamy’sThe
Perjur’dDevoteeandTerentianCriticism 503
AdeleScafuro
RomanComedyandRenaissanceRevengeDrama:TitusAndronicus
asExemplaryText 537
PhilipFord
MolièreandtheRomanComicTradition 565
GesineManuwald
JacobMasen’sRusticusimperans(1657)andAncientTheater 580
BenjamínGarcía-Hernández,RosarioLópezGregorisyCarmenGonzález-Vázquez
LarecepcióndePlautoyTerencioenlaliteraturaespañola 606
RobertTordoff
Reform:AFarceModernisedfromAristophanes(1792) 654
ModernReceptions
BernhardGreiner
PolosundPolis:Aristophanes’VögelundderenBearbeitungdurchGoethe,
KarlKrausundPeterHacks 699