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Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire

Author : C. W. Marshall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472588851
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire written by C. W. Marshall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athenian comedy is firmly entrenched in the classical canon, but imperial authors debated, dissected and redirected comic texts, plots and language of Aristophanes, Menander, and their rivals in ways that reflect the non-Athenocentric, pan-Mediterranean performance culture of the imperial era. Although the reception of tragedy beyond its own contemporary era has been studied, the legacy of Athenian comedy in the Roman world is less well understood. This volume offers the first expansive treatment of the reception of Athenian comedy in the Roman Empire. These engaged and engaging studies examine the lasting impact of classical Athenian comic drama. Demonstrating a variety of methodologies and scholarly perspectives, sources discussed include papyri, mosaics, stage history, epigraphy and a broad range of literature such as dramatic works in Latin and Greek, including verse satire, essays, and epistolary fiction.

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy

Author : Michael Fontaine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199743541
Total Pages : 913 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy written by Michael Fontaine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy marks the first comprehensive introduction to and reference work for the unified study of ancient comedy. From its birth in Greece to its end in Rome, from its Hellenistic to its Imperial receptions, no topic is neglected. The 41 essays offer cutting-edge guides through comedy's immense terrain.

The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

Author : Martin Revermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521760283
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy written by Martin Revermann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.

Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire

Author : C. W. Marshall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147258886X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire written by C. W. Marshall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athenian comedy is firmly entrenched in the classical canon, but imperial authors debated, dissected and redirected comic texts, plots and language of Aristophanes, Menander, and their rivals in ways that reflect the non-Athenocentric, pan-Mediterranean performance culture of the imperial era. Although the reception of tragedy beyond its own contemporary era has been studied, the legacy of Athenian comedy in the Roman world is less well understood. This volume offers the first expansive treatment of the reception of Athenian comedy in the Roman Empire. These engaged and engaging studies examine the lasting impact of classical Athenian comic drama. Demonstrating a variety of methodologies and scholarly perspectives, sources discussed include papyri, mosaics, stage history, epigraphy and a broad range of literature such as dramatic works in Latin and Greek, including verse satire, essays, and epistolary fiction.

Nature of Roman Comedy

Author : George E. Duckworth
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400872375
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Nature of Roman Comedy written by George E. Duckworth and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the most complete and definitive study of Roman comedy. Originally published in 1952. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Greek and Roman Comedy

Author : Shawn O'Bryhim
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292778821
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Greek and Roman Comedy written by Shawn O'Bryhim and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of what we know of Greco-Roman comedy comes from the surviving works of just four playwrights—the Greeks Aristophanes and Menander and the Romans Plautus and Terence. To introduce these authors and their work to students and general readers, this book offers a new, accessible translation of a representative play by each playwright, accompanied by a general introduction to the author's life and times, a scholarly article on a prominent theme in the play, and a bibliography of selected readings about the play and playwright. This range of material, rare in a single volume, provides several reading and teaching options, from the study of a single author to an overview of the entire Classical comedic tradition. The plays have been translated for readability and fidelity to the original text by established Classics scholars. Douglas Olson provides the translation and commentary for Aristophanes' Acharnians, Shawn O'Bryhim for Menander's Dyskolos, George Fredric Franco for Plautus' Casina, and Timothy J. Moore for Terence's Phormio.

Roman Comedy

Author : Kenneth McLeish
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Roman Comedy written by Kenneth McLeish and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This useful volume in the Inside the Ancient World series is a clear, accessible introduction to Roman Comedy, aimed at the GCSE/A level student. The late Kenneth McLeish studied Classics and Music at Worcester College, Oxford. After starting as a schoolteacher, he became a full-time translator, author and dramatist. His original plays and his translations from ancient drama, as well as from Strindberg, Ibsen and Feydeau, have been widely performed, most notably by the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Classical Comedy: Greek and Roman

Author : Robert W. Corrigan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1476841918
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book Classical Comedy: Greek and Roman written by Robert W. Corrigan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich anthologies of dramatic art and critical insight ä varied stimulating broad in its view and deep in its perceptions...exciting variety of translations...enlightening essays from some of the most stiumlating minds of the century. ä Leonard C. Pronko author ÊTheatre East and WestÊ Chair Dept. of Theatre Pomona College. Includes: Aristophanes: Lysistrata translated by Donald Sutherland; The Birds translated by Walter Kerr; Menander: The Grouch translated by Sheila D'Atri; Plautus: The Menaechmi translated by Palmer Bovie; The Haunted House translated by Palmer Bovie; Terence: The Self-Tormentor translated by Palmer Bovie.

Lysistrata

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3986772359
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Lysistrata written by Aristophanes and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-11-13 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lysistrata Aristophanes - Greek playwright, Aristophanes, lived during the 5th and 4th century BC and is considered one of the principal authors of the Greek classical period. Of the nearly thirty plays he wrote during his career, eleven are extant. Amongst the most famous of these is Lysistrata, a comedy which focuses on the women of Greece whose husbands have left for the Peloponnesian War. The women do not care about the conflict as much as they care about missing their husbands. Its titular character, Lysistrata, insists that men rarely listen to womens reasoning and exclude their opinions on matters of state. In retaliation she convinces the women of Greece to organize a strike, refusing to have sex with their husbands until both sides agree to cease fighting. The irony of this is that the men become more upset with their wives than they do with their enemies of war. Notable for its positive portrayal of womens rationality in a male-dominated society, Lysistrata stands as one the most popular and frequently performed plays from classical antiquity

The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy

Author : Martin T. Dinter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107002109
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy written by Martin T. Dinter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive critical engagement with Roman comedy and its reception presented by leading international scholars in accessible and up-to-date chapters.

Classical Comedy

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141959487
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Classical Comedy written by Aristophanes and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes' bold, imaginative Birds, and Menander's The Girl from Samos, which explores popular contemporary themes of mistaken identity and sexual misbehaviour; and two later Roman comic plays: Plautus' The Brothers Menaechmus - the original comedy of errors - and Terence's bawdy yet sophisticated double love-plot, The Eunuch. Together, these four plays demonstrate the development of Classical comedy, celebrating its richness, variety and extraordinary legacy to modern drama.

A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity

Author : Michael Ewans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350187593
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity written by Michael Ewans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields inside Classics and Drama, this volume traces the development of comedic performance and examines the different characteristics of Greek and Roman comedy. Although the origins of comedy are obscure, this study argues that comedic performances were at the heart of Graeco-Roman culture from around 486 BCE to the mid first century BCE. It explores the range of comedies during this period, which were fictional dramas that engaged with the political and social concerns of ancient society, and also at times with mythology and tragedy. The volume centres largely around the surviving work of Aristophanes and Menander in Athens, and Plautus and Terence in Rome, but authors whose plays survive only in fragments are also discussed. Performances and plays drew on a range of forms, including satire and fantasy, and were designed to entertain and amuse their audiences while also asking them to question issues of morality, privilege and class. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: form, theory, praxis, identities, the body, politics and power, laughter and ethics. These eight different approaches to ancient comedy add up to an extensive, synoptic coverage of the subject.

The Nature of Roman Comedy

Author : George Eckel Duckworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Roman Comedy written by George Eckel Duckworth and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greek Comic Drama

Author : Ben Akrigg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107008557
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greek Comic Drama written by Ben Akrigg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek comedy offers a unique insight into the reality of life as a slave, giving this disenfranchised group a 'voice'.

Performance and Identity in the Classical World

Author : Anne Duncan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107320852
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Performance and Identity in the Classical World written by Anne Duncan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance and Identity in the Classical World traces attitudes towards actors in Greek and Roman culture as a means of understanding ancient conceptions of, and anxieties about, the self. Actors were often viewed as frauds and impostors, capable of deliberately fabricating their identities. Conversely, they were sometimes viewed as possessed by the characters that they played, or as merely playing themselves onstage. Numerous sources reveal an uneasy fascination with actors and acting, from the writings of elite intellectuals (philosophers, orators, biographers, historians) to the abundant theatrical anecdotes that can be read as a body of 'popular performance theory'. This 2005 text examines these sources, along with dramatic texts and addresses the issue of impersonation, from the late fifth century BCE to the early Roman Empire.

Performance in Greek and Roman Theatre

Author : George Harrison
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004245456
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Performance in Greek and Roman Theatre written by George Harrison and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on insights from various disciplines (philology, archaeology, art) as well as from performance and reception studies, this volume shows how a heightened awareness of performance can enhance our appreciation of Greek and Roman theatre.

Frankness, Greek Culture, and the Roman Empire

Author : Dana Fields
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000067963
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frankness, Greek Culture, and the Roman Empire written by Dana Fields and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frankness, Greek Culture, and the Roman Empire discusses the significance of parrhēsia (free and frank speech) in Greek culture of the Roman empire. The term parrhēsia first emerged in the context of the classical Athenian democracy and was long considered a key democratic and egalitarian value. And yet, references to frank speech pervade the literature of the Roman empire, a time when a single autocrat ruled over most of the known world, Greek cities were governed at the local level by entrenched oligarchies, and social hierarchy was becoming increasingly stratified. This volume challenges the traditional view that the meaning of the term changed radically after Alexander the Great, and shows rather that parrhēsia retained both political and ethical significance well into the Roman empire. By examining references to frankness in political writings, rhetoric, philosophy, historiography, biographical literature, and finally satire, the volume also explores the dynamics of political power in the Roman empire, where politics was located in interpersonal relationships as much as, if not more than, in institutions. The contested nature of the power relations in such interactions - between emperors and their advisors, between orators and the cities they counseled, and among fellow members of the oligarchic elite in provincial cities - reveals the political implications of a prominent post-classical intellectual development that reconceptualizes true freedom as belonging to the man who behaves - and speaks - freely. At the same time, because the role of frank speaker is valorized, those who claim it also lay themselves open to suspicions of self-promotion and hypocrisy. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of rhetoric and political thought in the ancient world, and to anyone interested in ongoing debates about intellectual freedom, limits on speech, and the advantages of presenting oneself as a truth-teller.