Companion to Aristophanes

MATTHEW C. FARMER is Associate Professor and Chair of Classics at Haverford College. His research focuses on Greek comedy, with a particular emphasis on the study of comic fragments and the relationships comedy forms with other genres. He is the author of Tragedy on the Comic Stage and Theopompus: Introduction, Translation, Commentary.JEREMY B. LEFKOWITZ is Associate Professor of Classics at Swarthmore College. He has published a number of studies on Aesop and the ancient fable tradition, and he is the co-editor, with Caterina Mordeglia, of La favola tra Oriente e Occidente (forthcoming from SISMEL editrice).

• List of Illustrations xiNotes on Contributors xiiAcknowledgments xviiIntroduction 1Matthew C. Farmer and Jeremy B. LefkowitzPart I The World of Aristophanes 51 Aristophanes Among Athenians 7Donald Lateiner and Rosaria Munson2 The Staging of Old Comedy 21A.C. Duncan3 Meter and Song 35Anne Mahoney4 Style, Language, and Obscenity 46Stephen E. Kidd5 Images of Greek Comedy 56Carl A. Shaw6 Politics and Aristophanic Comedy 70Edith HallPart II The Comedies of Aristophanes 897 Acharnians: Tragedy and Epic 91Stephanie Nelson8 Knights: Political Satire 107Natalia Tsoumpra9 Clouds: Intellectuals and Philosophy 127Olimpia Imperio10 Wasps: Rhetoric and the Law 149Nikoletta Kanavou11 Peace: War 165Elena Fabbro12 Birds: Utopia 183David Konstan13 Lysistrata: Sexuality 196Kate Gilhuly14 Women at the Thesmophoria: Religion and Ritual 212Helene P. Foley15 Frogs: Metaphor and Allegory 228Anna A. Novokhatko16 Assemblywomen: Gender 247Gwendolyn Compton-Engle17 Wealth: Economic Fantasies 262Ralph M. RosenPart III The Fragments of Greek Comedy 27918 Aristophanes’ Lost Plays 281Christian Orth19 Aristophanes’ Predecessors 292Serena Perrone20 Aristophanes’ Contemporaries 304Sarah N. Miles21 Aristophanes’ Successors 319Anna UhligPart IV Aristophanes and His Readers 33722 Aristophanes Between Plato and Aristotle 339Pierre Destrée23 Ancient Scholarship on Aristophanes 352Andreas Willi24 Aristophanes in Roman Literature 368Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill25 Aristophanes and the Second Sophistic 381Inger N.I. Kuin26 Renaissance and Early Modern Reception of Aristophanes 393Malika Bastin-HammouPart V Aristophanes Today 40727 Performing Aristophanes 409Philip Walsh28 Teaching Aristophanes 423Elizabeth ScharffenbergerIndex 438

"Overall, this is undoubtedly an excellent companion, which will prove helpful to anyone approaching Aristophanes as well as to scholars of Aristophanes who want to explore different themes or methodologies."—Bianca Mazzinghi Gori, Bryn Mawr Classical Review"[The] essays provide informative and innovative introductions to their topics, make an easy read, and provide readers with useful references ... Most importantly, the companion is a good starting point for anyone beginning their research on Aristophanes."—Pavel Nývlt, Listy filologické