Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes

Philip Walsh received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University in 2008. He is an assistant professor of English and instructor of Latin and Greek at Washington College. His essay, “A Study in Reception: The British Debates over Aristophanes’ Politics and Influence,” appeared in the first issue of Classical Receptions Journal (Oxford, 2009). Contributors are Gregory Baker, Cécile Dudouyt, John Given, Matthew J. Kinservik, Stavroula Kiritsi, David Konstan, Mike Lippman, C.W. Marshall, Alexandre G. Mitchell, Mark Payne, Charles Platter, James Robson, Ralph Rosen, Niall W. Slater, Gonda Van Steen, Philip Walsh, Rosie Wyles, and Donna Zuckerberg.

• ContentsPreface and AcknowledgementsPhilip WalshNotes on ContributorsPART 1 - Aristophanes, Ancient and Modern: Debates, Education, and Juxtapositions1 Aristophanes in Antiquity: Reputation and ReceptionNiall W. Slater2 Modern Theory and AristophanesCharles Platter3 Aristophanes, Gender, and SexualityJames Robson4 Aristophanes, Education, and Performance in Modern GreeceStavroula Kiritsi5 Teaching Aristophanes in the American College ClassroomJohn Given and Ralph M. Rosen6 The “English Aristophanes”: Fielding, Foote, and Debates over Literary Satire Matthew J. Kinservik7 Teknomajikality and the Humanimal in Aristophanes’ WaspsMark Payne8 Branding Irony: Comedy and Crafting the Public Persona Donna ZuckerbergPART 2 - Outreach: Adaptations, Translations, Scholarship, and Performances9 Aristophanes in Early-Modern Fragments: Le Loyer’s La Néphélococugie (1579) and Racine’s Les Plaideurs (1668)Cécile Dudouyt10 Aristophanes and the French Translations of Anne Dacier Rosie Wyles11 The Verbal and the Visual: Aristophanes’ Nineteenth-Century English Translators Philip Walsh12 Comedy and Tragedy in Agon(y): The 1902 Comedy Panathenaia of Andreas NikolarasGonda Van Steen13 J.T. Sheppard and the Cambridge Birds of 1903 and 1924C.W. Marshall14 Murray’s AristophanesMike Lippman15 “Attic Salt into an Undiluted Scots”: Aristophanes and the Modernism of Douglas YoungGregory Baker16 Classical Reception in Posters of Lysistrata: The Visual Debate Between Traditional and Feminist Imagery Alexandre G. Mitchell17 Afterword David KonstanGeneral Bibliography Index Nominum et Rerum

"Consistently thoughtful and frequently quite useful, Philip Walsh’s edited volume on the reception of Aristophanes, part of Brill’s Companions to Classical Reception series, is a model of the form. (...) this book should be a touchstone for future work on Aristophanes in the longue durée. (...) This is a handsomely produced volume, enhanced by the colorful inclusion of nearly forty recent Lysistrata posters compiled by Mitchell, one of which also graces the cover. (...) Walsh’s useful and engaging volume on the reception of Aristophanes is a testament to the maturity of the approach." A. C. Duncan, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.03.35