The birth of comedy : texts, documents, and art from Athenian comic competitions, 486-280 / edited by Jeffrey Rusten ; translated by Jeffrey Henderson [and others].
Aside from the well-known plays of Aristophanes, many of the comedies of ancient Greece are known only through fragments and references written in Greek. Now a group of distinguished scholars brings these nearly lost works to modern readers with lively English translations of the surviving texts. --
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Proto-comedy : literary and visual evidence for the precursors of comedy in 6th century Greece
- Epicharmus of Sicily
- Festivals, competitions, victory-lists
- The first and second generations (except Cratinus)
- Cratinus
- Eupolis
- Aristophanes
- Phrynichus and Platon
- Other authors ca. 420-390 BCE
- Theater, audience, actors, chorus, and costume of old and middle comedy
- Scenes from old or middle comedy on 4th-century southern Italian vases
- Anaxandrides, Eubulus, Ephippus
- Antiphanes
- Timocles and nicostratus
- Alexis
- Other authors
- Masks, actors, staging, and scenes from new comedy
- Philemon
- Menander
- Diphilus of Sinope
- Other authors
- Epilogue: Survival of comedy in Hellenistic Greece and Republican and Imperial Rome
- Ancient theories of comedy and laughter, and ancient writers on comedy.