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SLAVES AND SLAVERY IN ANCIENT GREEK COMIC DRAMA HowdidaudiencesofancientGreekcomedyreacttothespectacleof mastersandslaves?Iftheywereexpectedtolaughataslavethreatened withabeatingbyhismasteratonemomentbutlaughwithhimwhen they bantered familiarly at the next, what does this tell us about ancient Greek slavery? This volume presents ten essays by leading specialists in ancient Greek literature, culture and history, exploring thechangingrolesandrepresentationsofslavesincomicdramafrom Aristophanes at the height of the Athenian Empire to the New Comedy of Menander and the Hellenistic world. The contributors focusvariouslyonindividualcomicdramasoronparticularhistorical periods,analysingawiderangeoftextual,material-cultureandcom- parativedataforthepracticesofslaveryandtheirrepresentationonthe ancientGreekcomicstage. benakriggisAssociateProfessorofGreekHistoryattheUniversity ofToronto.Hisprincipalresearchinterestistheeconomicandsocial historyofclassicalGreece. robtordoffteachesGreekandRomanliteratureintheDepartment ofHumanitiesatYorkUniversityinToronto.Hisresearchfocuseson Aristophanes, social and cultural history and the reception of ancient Greekliterature. Downloaded from Cambridge Books Online by IP 131.211.208.19 on Sat Aug 31 06:40:07 WEST 2013. http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9780511919985 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 SLAVES AND SLAVERY IN ANCIENT GREEK COMIC DRAMA edited by BEN AKRIGG and ROB TORDOFF Downloaded from Cambridge Books Online by IP 131.211.208.19 on Sat Aug 31 06:40:07 WEST 2013. http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9780511919985 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown, Singapore,SãoPaulo,Delhi,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb28ru,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107008557 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2013 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2013 PrintedandiboundiinitheUnitedKingdombyitheMPGiBooksiGroup AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata SlavesandslaveryinancientGreekcomicdrama/editedbyBenAkriggandRobTordoff. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-1-107-00855-7 1. Greekdrama(Comedy)–Historyandcriticism. 2. Slaveryin literature. I. Akrigg,Ben. II. Tordoff,Rob. pa3166.s57 2013 8820.0109352625–dc23 2012024806 isbn978-1-107-00855-7Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredto inthispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. Downloaded from Cambridge Books Online by IP 131.211.208.19 on Sat Aug 31 06:40:07 WEST 2013. http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9780511919985 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 Dedication To the memory of Katharine Elizabeth Atock 18 June 1950 – 27 December 2010 Downloaded from Cambridge Books Online by IP 131.211.208.19 on Sat Aug 31 06:40:07 WEST 2013. http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9780511919985 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 Contents Listoffigures page ix Notesoncontributors x Preface xiii AnoteonthespellingofancientGreekinEnglish xiv Listofabbreviations xv 1 Introduction:slavesandslaveryinancientGreekcomedy rob tordoff 1 2 SlavesandpoliticsinearlyAristophaniccomedy s. douglas olson 63 3 Slavery,dramaandthealchemyofidentityinAristophanes susan lape 76 4 SlavesinthefragmentsofOldComedy donald sells 91 5 Aristophanes,slavesandhistory ben akrigg 111 6 Acomedyoferrors:thecomicslaveinGreekart kelly wrenhaven 124 7 Menander’sslaves:thebanalityofviolence david konstan 144 8 Copingwithpunishment:thesocialnetworkingofslavesin Menander cheryl cox 159 9 SexslavesinNewComedy c. w. marshall 173 vii Downloaded from Cambridge Books Online by IP 160.36.192.221 on Sat Aug 31 05:28:24 WEST 2013. http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9780511919985 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 viii Contents 10 ‘Phlyax’slaves:fromvasetostage? kathryn bosher 197 11 TokensofidentityinMenander’sEpitrepontes:slaves,citizens andin-betweens christina vester 209 References 228 Indexlocorum 248 Generalindex 262 Downloaded from Cambridge Books Online by IP 160.36.192.221 on Sat Aug 31 05:28:24 WEST 2013. http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9780511919985 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 Figures 6.1 Terracottafigurineofaseatedslave.London,British Museum743.©TheTrusteesoftheBritishMuseum. page 134 6.2 DioscuridesMosaic,Pompeii.©ArtResource. 138 6.3 Terracottafigurineofanursewithchild.London,British Museum2008.©TheTrusteesoftheBritishMuseum. 139 9.1 SvayPakgraffiti.OnceSvayPak,Cambodia.Courtesyof C.W.Marshall. 195 9.2 SvayPakgraffiti.OnceSvayPak,Cambodia.Courtesyof C.W.Marshall. 195 10.1 EarlyLucanianred-figurecalyx-krater.BerlinF3043. ©ArtResource. 201 ix Downloaded from Cambridge Books Online by IP 131.211.208.19 on Sat Aug 31 06:40:17 WEST 2013. http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9780511919985 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 Notes on contributors ben akrigg isAssociateProfessorattheUniversityofToronto,wherehe hastaughtGreekhistorysince2006.Hisprincipalresearchinterestisin theeconomicandsocialhistoryofclassicalGreece. kathryn bosher is Assistant Professor of Classics at Northwestern University. She is editor of Theater outside Athens: Drama in Greek Sicily and South Italy (2012) and is at work on a monograph on the historyofearlyGreektheatreinSicily. cheryl cox hasretiredfromtheDepartmentofForeignLanguagesand LiteraturesattheUniversityofMemphis.SheistheauthorofHousehold Interests: Property, Marriage Strategies, and Family Dynamics in Ancient Athens (1998). She has written a number of articles on the family and kinshipinancientAthens. david konstan is Professor of Classics at New York University and ProfessorEmeritusofClassicsatBrownUniversity.Amonghisbooksare Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres (1994), Greek Comedy and Ideology (1995), The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: StudiesinAristotleandClassicalLiterature(2006)andBeforeForgiveness: TheOriginsofaMoralIdea(2010).Heiscurrentlyworkingonabookon theancientGreekconceptionofbeauty. susan lape isAssociateProfessorofClassicsattheUniversityofSouthern California. Her publications include Reproducing Athens: Menander’s Comedy, Democratic Culture, and the Hellenistic City (2004) and Race andCitizenIdentityintheClassicalAthenianDemocracy(2010). c.w. marshall is Professor of Greek at the University of British ColumbiainVancouver. s.douglas olson is Distinguished McKnight University Professor at theUniversityofMinnesota,andHumboldtforschungspreisträgeratthe University of Freiburg. He is the author of seventeen books, including x Downloaded from Cambridge Books Online by IP 131.211.208.19 on Sat Aug 31 06:40:19 WEST 2013. http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9780511919985 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 Notesoncontributors xi thestandardeditionsofAristophanes’Acharnians,Peaceand(withColin Austin) Thesmophoriazusae. He is currently at work on a new critical edition and commentary on Aristophanes’ Wasps (with Zachary Biles), andonacompletecriticaltextofAthenaeus’Deipnosophistae. donald sells is Assistant Professor of Greek at the University of Michigan. His interests include Greek drama, Greek historiography and South Italian vase-painting. He is currently writing a monograph onparodyinOldComedy. rob tordoff teachesGreekandRomanliteratureintheDepartmentof Humanities at York University in Toronto. At present he is writing a bookonthelateplaysofAristophanes. christina vester is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Waterloo and a cultural historian of Greek and Roman drama.SheiscurrentlyworkingonwarandidentityinSeneca’sTroades and on the representation of Julio-Claudian women in Pseudo-Seneca’s Octavia. kelly wrenhaven is Assistant Professor of Classics at Cleveland State University. Her main area of interest is Greek slavery, in particular the ideologyofslaveryintheclassicalGreekworld.Herbook,Reconstructing theSlave:TheImageoftheSlaveinAncientGreece,waspublishedin2012. Among her other publications are ‘The identity of the wool-workers in theAtticManumissions’(Hesperia78,2009)and‘Greekrepresentations of the slave body: a conflict of ideas?’ (in Reading Ancient Slavery, ed. R. Alston, E. Hall and L. Proffitt, 2011). Her current project is a comparative study of Graeco-Roman and American slave ideologies, focusing on the reception, use and abuse of Graeco-Roman ideas in Americanslavery. Downloaded from Cambridge Books Online by IP 131.211.208.19 on Sat Aug 31 06:40:19 WEST 2013. http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9780511919985 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 Preface SlavesandSlaveryinAncientGreekComicDramabeganwithaconference, held in Toronto in December 2008, which was generously funded by a numberof differentinstitutions andsupportedbya numberof wonderful colleagues at the University of Toronto and York University. At York UniversitywewouldliketothanktheFaculty ofArts (nowtheFaculty of LiberalArtsandProfessionalStudies),theDivisionofHumanities(nowthe Department of Humanities), the Council of Masters and the Program in ClassicalStudies,andattheUniversityofTorontowewouldliketothank theDepartmentofClassicsandtheDepartmentofReligiousStudies.Atthe University of Toronto, Brad Inwood, John Magee and Victoria Wohl provided invaluable support, as did our colleagues in Classical Studies at York University, Matthew Clark, Jonathan Edmondson and Jeremy Trevett,andthethenChairoftheDivisionofHumanities,PatrickTaylor. The resulting conference could not have been held without the enthu- siasm of the speakers and the audience, many of whom travelled great distances to a cold and wintry Toronto to attend; we are very grateful to allwhowereinvolved. At Cambridge University Press, Gillian Dadd, Josephine Lane, Laura Morris and Christina Sarigiannidou diligently steered the volume towards publication; we are very grateful to them all. To Merle Read, our copy- editor,whocarefully andpatientlyread themanuscriptandsavedus from innumerableerrors,weoweagreatdebtofgratitude.Wearealsofortunate to have had the help of Angelique Jenkins, in the Humanities Program at YorkUniversity,whocollatedandcheckedthelistofthereferences. xiii Downloaded from Cambridge Books Online by IP 131.211.208.19 on Sat Aug 31 06:40:21 WEST 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511919985.001 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013

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