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GREEK COMEDY AND THE DISCOURSE OF GENRES Recentscholarshiphasacknowledgedthattheintertextualdiscourseofancient comedy with previous and contemporary literary traditions is not limited to tragedy. This book is a timely response to the more sophisticated and theory-groundedwayofviewingcomedy’sinteractionswithitsculturaland intellectualcontext.Itshowsthatintheprocessofitsself-definition,comedy emergesasvoraciousandmultifariouswithawidespectrumofliterary,sub- literary and paraliterary traditions, the engagement with which emerges as centraltoitsprojectedliteraryidentityand,subsequently,tothereception of the genre itself. Comedy’s self-definition through generic discourse far transcendsthe(narrowlyconceived)‘high–low’divisionofgenres.Thisbook explores ancient comedy’s interactions with Homeric and Hesiodic epic, iambos,lyric,tragedy,thefabletradition,theritualperformancesoftheGreek polis, and its reception in Platonic writings and Alexandrian scholarship, withinaunifiedinterpretativeframework. emmanuela bakolaisLeverhulmeECFellowatKing’sCollegeLondon. ShehaspublishedamonographonCratinus(CratinusandtheArtofComedy, )andseveralarticleswhichexploretherelationshipofcomedytoother genres.Hercurrentproject,entitledAeschyleanTragedyandEarlyEnviron- mentalDiscourse,arisesfromherstudyoffifth-centurycomedyasreception oftragedy.Usingacultural-anthropologicalframework,thisprojectrereads the tragedies of Aeschylus, arguing that their dramaturgy, imagery, stage action,andengagementwithcultandritualshow thatAeschyleantragedy isprofoundlypreoccupiedwiththehumanrelationshiptotheEarthandits resources. lucia prauscello is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of CambridgeandFellowofTrinityHall.SheistheauthorofSingingAlexandria: Music between Practice and Textual Transmission () and has variously published on Greek archaic and Hellenistic poetry, drama, Greek religion andancientmusic. mario telo` isAssistantProfessorofClassicsattheUniversityofCalifornia, LosAngeles.HisresearchinterestsmainlyfocusonAtticdrama,andespecially onOldComedy,buthehasalsopublishedinotherareasofGreekliterature (the Greek novel, ecphrastic literature, Roman tragedy and comedy). In he published a commentary on Eupolis’ Demoi, the best-preserved fragmentary play of Old Comedy. He has now completed a book entitled Aristophanes’WaspsandtheGenerationofGreekComedy. GREEK COMEDY AND THE DISCOURSE OF GENRES edited by ` E. BAKOLA, L. PRAUSCELLO AND M. TELO cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown, Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo,Delhi,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecbru,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/ (cid:2)C CambridgeUniversityPress Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. 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Contents Listoffigures pagevii Notesoncontributors viii Acknowledgements xii Notetothereader xiii Listofabbreviations xiv Introduction:Greekcomedyasafabricof genericdiscourse EmmanuelaBakola,LuciaPrauscelloandMarioTelo` part i: comedy and genre: self-definition and development TheGreekdramaticgenres:theoreticalperspectives MichaelSilk ComedyandthePompe:Dionysiangenre-crossing EricCsapo Iambos,comedyandthequestionofgenericaffiliation RalphRosen part ii: comedy and genres in dialogue comedy and epic Paraepiccomedy:point(s)andpractices MartinRevermann Epic,nostosandgenericgenealogyinAristophanes’Peace MarioTelo` v vi Contents comedy and lyric Comedyandthecivicchorus ChrisCarey Aristophanes’Simonides:lyricmodelsforpraise andblame RichardRawles comedy and tragedy ComedyversustragedyinWasps MatthewWright Crimeandpunishment:Cratinus,Aeschylus’Oresteia, andthemetaphysicsandpoliticsofwealth EmmanuelaBakola FromAchilles’horsestoacheese-seller’sshop:onthe historyoftheguessinggameinGreekdrama MarcoFantuzziandDavidKonstan comedy, the fable and the ethnographic tradition TheAesopicinAristophanes EdithHall ThemirrorofAristophanes:thewingedethnographersof Birds(–,–,–) JeffreyRusten part iii: the reception of comedy and comic discourse ComedyandcomicdiscourseinPlato’sLaws LuciaPrauscello ComedyandthePleiad:Alexandriantragediansandthe birthofcomicscholarship NickLowe References Indexlocorum Generalindex Figures . Atticred-figurefragmentsbytheBerlinPainter,c.bc; Athens,NationalArchaeologicalMuseum,Akr.. CourtesyoftheNationalArchaeologicalMuseum.Photo: M.C.Miller page . Atticred-figurecupfragments,AntiphonGroup,– bc;Paris,LouvreC.Photo:F.Lissarrague 2.3a Atticred-figurecup,PistoxenosPainter,c.bc;Orvieto. andb Faina.Drawing:Hartwig,pl.a,b 2.4a Atticred-figurecup,SabouroffPainter,c.bc;Malibu, andb J.P.GettyMuseum.AE..CourtesyofJ.P.Getty Museum . Atticred-figurelekythos,c.bc;Athens.(cid:2)´Ephoria,inv. no.A.Photo:E.Csapo,withpermission . Atticred-figurechous,c.bc;Hermitage.(cid:3)(cid:4). CourtesyoftheStateHermitageMuseum,StPetersburg . Atticred-figurebellkrater,Hare-HuntPainter,c.–bc; S.Agatade’Goti.DrawingfromGerharda,pl. . Atticred-figurebellkrater,–bc;Naples,Private collection.Photo:courtesy,K.Schauenburg . FragmentsofanAtticred-figurebellkrater,–bc; Castulo,(Linares,Jae´n).A.J.Dom´ınguezand C.Sa´nchez,fig.,withpermission vii Notes on contributors emmanuela bakolaisLeverhulmeECFellowatKing’sCollegeLondon. She has published a monograph on Cratinus (Cratinus and the Art of Comedy, ) and several articles which explore the relationship of comedy to other genres. Her current project, entitled Aeschylean TragedyandEarlyEnvironmentalDiscourse,arisesfromherstudyoffifth- centurycomedyasreceptionoftragedy.Usingacultural-anthropological framework,thisprojectrereadsthetragediesofAeschylus,arguingthat theirdramaturgy, imagery, stageaction, and engagement withcult and ritualshowthatAeschyleantragedyisprofoundlypreoccupiedwiththe humanrelationshiptotheEarthanditsresources. chris carey isProfessorofGreekatUniversityCollegeLondon.Hehas published extensively on Pindar and early lyric, Homer, drama, Greek law and politics, and the Attic Orators. His most recent work includes a new OCT edition of Lysias. He is currently writing a commentary toBookofHerodotusforCambridgeUniversityPress,AthenianLaw andabookofessaysonPindar’sOlympianOdes. eric csapo is Professor of Classics at the University of Sydney. He has a special interest in ancient drama and theatre history and is author of Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater (), Theories of Mythol- ogy (), and co-author with William Slater of Context of Ancient Drama (). In collaboration with Peter Wilson, he is preparing a multi-volume history of the Classical Greek theatre to be published by CambridgeUniversityPress. marco fantuzziisProfessorofGreekLiteratureatColumbiaUniversity, NewYork,andattheUniversityofMacerata(Italy).Heistheauthorof BionisSmyrnaeiAdonidisepitaphium();RicerchesuApollonioRodio ();TraditionandInnovationinHellenisticPoetry(co-authoredwith R. Hunter, Cambridge ); Achilles in Love (). He co-edited viii Notesoncontributors ix (with R. Pretagostini) Struttura e storia dell’esametro greco (–) and (with T. Papanghelis) Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Pastoral (). He is now co-editing for Cambridge University Press (with C. Tsagalis) A Companion to the Epic Cycle, and completing (under contractforthe‘CambridgeClassicalTextsandCommentaries’)afull- scalecommentaryontheRhesusascribedtoEuripides. edith hall, afterholdingpostsattheUniversitiesofCambridge,Read- ing, Oxford, Durham and Royal Holloway (–), where she also directed the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome, is now Research Professor at King’s College London. She is also Co-Founder and Consultant Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama in Oxford. Her research focuses on representations of ethnicity, the role played by theatre (especially Greek tragedy) in both the ancient and modern worlds and the uses made by classical culture inEuropeaneducation,identityandpoliticaltheory.Herbooksinclude Inventing the Barbarian (); a commentary on Aeschylus’ Persians (); Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre (, with Fiona Mac- intosh); The Theatrical Cast of Athens (); The Return of Ulysses: a Cultural History of Homer’s Odyssey (); Greek Tragedy: Suffering undertheSun(). david konstan is Professor of Classics at New York University, and Professor Emeritus at Brown University. He is the author of Roman Comedy (); Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres();GreekComedyandIdeology();FriendshipintheClas- sicalWorld();PityTransformed();TheEmotionsoftheAncient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature (); Terms for Eternity: Aioˆnios and a¨ıdios in Classical and Christian Texts (with Ilaria Ramelli, ); ‘A Life Worthy of the Gods’: The Materialist Pyschology of Epicurus (); and Before Forgiveness: the Origins of a Moral Idea (). He is currently working on a verse translation of Seneca’s Her- cules on Mount Oeta and Hercules Furens, and a book on the ancient Greekconceptionofbeauty. nick lowe is Senior Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway, University ofLondon,andauthorofTheClassicalPlotandtheInventionofWestern Narrative (Cambridge ). His research interests include Greek and Roman comedy, formalist literary theory, and the reception of anti- quity in the nineteenth century. He is currently writing a book on the constructionofancientGreeceinmodernfiction. x Notesoncontributors lucia prauscello is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall. She is the author of Singing Alexandria:MusicbetweenPracticeandTextualTransmission()and hasvariouslypublishedonGreekarchaicandHellenisticpoetry,drama, Greekreligionandancientmusic. richard rawles hastaughtattheUniversityofStAndrews,University College London and the University of Edinburgh, and is now at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of a number of articles on Greek poetry and of a forthcoming book about Simonides and his ancient reception. With Peter Ago´cs and Chris Carey, he is the editor of Reading the Victory Ode (Cambridge ) and Receiving the Komos (). martinrevermannisAssociateProfessorinClassicsandTheatreStudies at the University of Toronto. His research interests lie in the areas of Greek drama (especially its performance analysis, iconography and cultural history), Brecht, theatre sociology and theatre theory. He is the author of Comic Business: Theatricality, Dramatic Technique and Performance Contexts of Aristophanic Comedy (). In addition to various articles he is the co-editor (with P. Wilson) of Performance, Iconography, Reception: Studies in Honour of Oliver Taplin () and co-editor (with I. Gildenhard) of Beyond the Fifth Century: Interactions withGreekTragedyfromthe4thCenturyBCEtotheMiddleAges(), aswellastheeditoroftheforthcomingCambridgeCompaniontoGreek Comedy. ralph rosen is Rose Family Endowed Term Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published widely on ancient Greek literature (especially comic genres), philosophy and ancient medicine. His most recent book is Making Mockery: the Poetics of Ancient Satire (). He is also co-founder (with Ineke Sluiter, of LeidenUniversity,NL)ofthePenn–LeidenColloquiaonAncientValues. jeffrey rusten is Professor of Classics at Cornell University. He has published widely in the field of Greek literature, including Hellenistic mythography,historiography,tragedyandcomedy.WithJ.Henderson, D. Konstan, R. Rosen and N. Slater, he has co-edited The Birth of Comedy: Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486–280 (). He is now working on a Loeb edition of Philostratus’ Heroicus and Gymnasticus and completing a commentary on Thucy- dides,Book.
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