A Companion to Aristophanes (eBook)

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).

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