Brill's companion to the study of Greek comedy
By: edited by Gregory W. Dobrov
Publisher: Brill; BRILL
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng; grc
Number of pages: 579
ISBN-13: 9789004109636
Other titles: Companion to the study of Greek comedy
Description: "The present volume sets forth the main resources for the advancing student of Ancient Greek Comedy. An international roster of specialists contributes chapters organized into three sections: "Contexts": the intellectual, physical and socio-historical setting of Athenian Comedy; "History": the literary history of the Old, Middle and New periods; and "Elements": the text, language and formal components of the genre (including a comprehensive bibliography). This Companion is designed as a resource for understanding and interpreting the classics of Athenian Comedy from its inception through Menander. It will also be useful for navigating the principal corpora of texts, fragments and scholia that have been revised and augmented in recent years. This unique volume occupies the middle ground between short surveys and highly specialized scholarship." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Greek comedy and her critics / Gregory W. Dobrov; title: Comedy, politics, and society / S. Douglas Olson; title: The material evidence / J. Richard Green; title: The production and performance of comedy in antiquity / Eric Csapo; title: Myth and ritual in comedy / Angus M. Bowie; title: Origins and fifth-century comedy / Ian C. Storey; title: Aristophanes / Ralph M. Rosen; title: Middle comedy / W. Geoffrey Arnott; title: New comedy / Stanley Ireland; title: The history of the text of Aristophanes / Alan H. Sommerstein; title: Comic fragments : transmission and textual criticism / Heinz-Günther Nesselrath; title: Structure and meter / Bernhard Zimmermann; title: The language of old comedy / Andreas Willi.