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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.
This is the first book to study how Haitian authors from
independence to the present have adapted Greco-Roman material and
harnessed it to Haiti’s anti-colonial legacy through an
interdisciplinary approach to the topic.
This is the first book to study the impact of invective poetics
associated with early Greek iambic poetry on Roman imperial authors
and audiences. It demonstrates how authors as varied as Ovid and
Gregory Nazianzen wove recognizable elements of the iambic
tradition (e.g. meter, motifs, or poetic biographies) into other
literary forms (e.g. elegy, oratorical prose, anthologies of
fables), and it shows that the humorous, scurrilous, efficacious
aggression of Archilochus continued to facilitate negotiations of
power and social relations long after Horace's Epodes. The eclectic
approach encompasses Greek and Latin, prose and poetry, and
exploratory interludes appended to each chapter help to open four
centuries of later classical literature to wider debates about the
function, propriety and value of the lowest and most debated poetic
form from archaic Greece. Each chapter presents a unique variation
on how these imperial authors became Archilochus – however
briefly and to whatever end.
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.
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