Ancient Comedy and Reception

S. Douglas Olson, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA/University of Freiburg, Breisgau, Germany.

• ANCIENT COMEDY AND RECEPTION:ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JEFFREY HENDERSONForewordS. Douglas Olson Ancient Comedy and Receptions1. Exchanging Metaphors in Cratinus and AristophanesZachary P. Biles, Franklin and Marshall College 2. Comic Parrhêsia and the Paradoxes of RepressionRalph M. Rosen, University of Pennsylvania 3. Slipping One In: The Introduction of Obscene Lexical Items in AristophanesJames Robson, Open University 4. Ancient Comedy and Historiography: Aristophanes Meets HerodotusHeinz-Günther Nesselrath, University of Göttingen 5. Epiphany of a Serious Dionysus in a Comedy?Oliver Taplin, Oxford University 6. Toponimi e immaginario sessuale nella Lisistrata di AristofaneGiuseppe Mastromarco, Università degli Studi di Bari 7. Dionysus' Choice in Frogs and Aristophanes' Paraenetic PedigreeMark Alonge, Independent Scholar 8. Two Phaedras: Euripides and Aristophanes?J.R. Green, University of Sydney/Institute of Classical Studies, University of London 9. Plato's AristophanesCharles Platter, University of Georgia 10. Menander's Samia and the Phaedra ThemeAlan H. Sommerstein, University of Nottingham 11. Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Comedy: Menander's Kolax in Three Roman Receptions (Naevius, Plautus and Terence's Eunuchus)Michael Fontaine, Cornell University 12. Libera lingua loquemur ludis Liberalibus. Gnaeus Naevius as a Latin Aristophanes?Simone Beta, Università di Siena 13. Plautus und die Techniken des ImprovisationstheatersEckard Lefèvre, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität 14. Lege dura vivont mulieres: Syra's Complaint about the Sexual Double Standard(Plautus Merc. 817-29)Boris Dunsch, Philipps-Universität Marburg 15. "Letting It All Hang Out": Lucian, Old Comedy and the Origins of Roman SatireKeith Sidwell, University of Calgary 16. Old Comedy at Rome: Rhetorical Model and Satirical ProblemIan Ruffell, University of Glasgow 17. Inventing Everything: Comic and Performative Sources of Graeco-Roman FictionNiall W. Slater, Emory University 18. From Drama to Narrative: The Reception of Comedy in the Ancient NovelSteven D. Smith, Hofstra University 19. Greek Culture as Images: Menander's Comedies and Their Patrons in the Roman West and the Greek EastSebastiana Nervegna, University of Sydney 20. The Evidence of the Zeugma Synaristosai Mosaic for Imperial Performance of MenanderNiall W. Slater, Emory University Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Receptions21. Medieval Vernacular Versions of Antique Comedy: Geoffrey Chaucer, Eustache Deschamps, Vitalis of Blois and Plautus' AmphitryonLaura Kendrick, Université de Versailles 22. Aristofane mascherato. Un secolo (1415-1504) di fortuna e 'sfortuna'Ludovica Radif, Università di Genova 23. L'influence de Plaute sur la définition du comique chez Giovanni PontanoHélène Casanova-Robin, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) 24. Strepsiades' Latin Voice: Two Renaissance Translations of Aristophanes' CloudsJohn Nassichuk, University of Western Ontario 25. The Trickster Onstage: The Cunning Slave from Plautus to Commedia dell'ArteFrancesca Schironi, University of Michigan 26. Aristophanes in England, 1500-1660Robert S. Miola, Loyola University in Maryland 27. Exaggerating Terence's Andria: Steele's The Conscious Lovers, Bellamy's The Perjur'd Devotee and Terentian CriticismMaik Goth, Ruhr-Universität Bochum 28. Roman Comedy and Renaissance Revenge Drama: Titus Andronicus as Exemplary TextAdele Scafuro, Brown University 29. Molière and the Roman Comic Tradition†Philip Ford, Clare College, Cambridge 30. Jacob Masen's Rusticus imperans (1657) and Ancient TheaterGesine Manuwald, University College London 31. La recepción de Plauto y Terencio en la literatura españolaBenjamín García-Hernández, Rosario López Gregoris y Carmen González-Vázquez,Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 32. Reform: A Farce Modernised from Aristophanes (1792)Robert Tordoff, York University Modern Receptions33. Polos und Polis: Aristophanes? Vögel und deren Bearbeitung durch Goethe, Karl Kraus und Peter HacksBernhard Greiner, Universität Tübingen 34. Translations of Aristophanes in Italy in the 19th CenturyMaria Luisa Chirico, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli 35. Close Encounters of the Comic Kind: Aristophanes' Frogs and Lysistrata in Athenian Mythological Burlesque of the 1880sGonda Van Steen, University of Florida 36. Rodgers and Hart's The Boys from Syracuse: Shakespeare Made PlautineTimothy J. Moore, University of Texas at Austin 37. She (Don't) Gotta Have It: African-American Reception of LysistrataKevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Loyola Marymount University 38. "Es ist, um aus der Rüstung zu fahren!": Erich Kästners Adaption der Acharner des AristophanesPeter v. Möllendorff, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen 39. Lysistrata on BroadwayMarina Kotzamani, University of the Peloponnese 40. "Attend, O Muse, Our Holy Dances and Come to Rejoice in Our Songs": The Reception of Aristophanes in the Modern Musical TheaterSimone Beta, Università di Siena 41. Aristophanes at the BBC, 1940s-1960sAmanda Wrigley, University of Westminster 42. Cultural Politics and Aesthetic Debate in Two Modern Versions of Aristophanes' FrogsGraham Ley, University of Exeter 43. Ionesco's New and Old ComedyDavid Konstan, New York University 44. Aristophanes in the Cinema; or, the Metamorphoses of LysistrataMartin M. Winkler, George Mason University 45. Who's Afraid of Aristophanes? The Troubled Life of Ancient Comedy in 20th-Century ItalyMartina Treu, IULM - Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione, Milan 46. Aristophanes in Israel: Comedy, Theatricality, PoliticsNurit Yaari, Tel Aviv University 47. Culture, Education and Politics: Greek and Roman Comedy in AfrikaansBetine van Zyl Smit, University of Nottingham 48. The Maculate Muse in the 21st Century: Recent Adaptations of Aristophanes' Peace and EcclesiazusaeElizabeth Scharffenberger, Columbia University 49. Eschyle et Euripide entre tragédie et comédie : polyphonie et interprétation dans quelques traductions récentes des Grenouilles d'AristophaneAriane Eissen, Université de PoitiersMyrto Gondicas, freelance translator 50. Business as Usual: Plautus' Menaechmi in English TranslationJ. Michael Walton, University of Hull