Classical Myth and Literature in Parody

William Hansen is Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies and Folklore at Indiana University, USA.

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction PART I. CLASSICAL PARODY IN ANTIQUITY1. Aristophanes, Scenes from Old Comedy2. Matron of Pitane, Attic Dinner-Party3. Pseudo-Homer, Battle of the Frogs and Mice 4. Plautus, Amphitruo 5. Ovid, Metamorphoses 6. Lucian of Samosata, Gout and A True Story, plus Lucian's Hoaxes7. Visual ParodiesExcursus 1INTERMEZZO8. Medieval Latin Parody9. Byzantine ParodyExcursus 2PART II. THE REINVENTION OF CLASSICAL PARODY 10. Classical Parody Redivivus11. [Charles Cotton], Scarronides: or, Virgil Travestie. A Mock Poem on the First and Fourth Books of Virgil’s Æneis, in English, Burlesque 12. [Jonathan Swift], Baucis and Philemon; A Poem. On the ever lamented Loss of the two Yew-Trees, in the Parish of Chilthorne, Near the County Town of Somerset 13. [Thomas Bridges], A Burlesque Translation of Homer 14. Musical Theatre15. Mock Textbooks16. Anonymous, “Carmen Possum” 17. A. E. Housman, “Fragment of a Greek Tragedy”PART III. CLASSICAL PARODY TODAY18. Maurice Baring, Unreliable History 19. W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, And Now All This 20. Will Cuppy, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody 21. Richard Armour, The Classics Reclassified22. John Bailey, “Holp!” 23. Regius Professor of Greek, “A Note on the Use of the Strong Aorist Optative Passive of p???? by Attic Poets of the Middle and New Comedies”24. William Hansen, “The Structural Study of Myth, or Oedipus at the Sorbonne” 25. Anonymous, “A Warm, Fuzzy Story”26. Light VerseOverviewBibliographyIndex

A welcome survey of Greek and Roman, medieval, and English parody with texts from each period. Hansen provides well-informed introductions to the genre, the periods, the authors and the texts. This book can be read with pleasure from the beginning or consulted on particular authors or works.