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Journal articles on the topic "Ancient Greek Comedy"
Vervain, Chris. "Performing Ancient Drama in Mask: the Case of Greek New Comedy." New Theatre Quarterly 20, no. 3 (August 2004): 245–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x04000144.
Full textRuffell, I. A. "Review Article: Comedy." Journal of Hellenic Studies 132 (September 6, 2012): 157–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0075426912000110.
Full textShaw, Carl A. "‘Genitalia of the Sea’: Seafood and Sexuality in Greek Comedy." Mnemosyne 67, no. 4 (July 1, 2014): 554–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568525x-12341278.
Full textDardano, Paola. "How to be impolite in ancient Greek: silencers and dismissals in Greek comedy." Veleia, ´39 (February 21, 2022): 65–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1387/veleia.22300.
Full textMedda, Enrico. "Stephen E. Kidd: Nonsense and Meaning in Ancient Greek Comedy." Gnomon 89, no. 3 (2017): 195–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.17104/0017-1417-2017-3-195.
Full textVervain, Chris. "Performing Ancient Drama in Mask: the Case of Greek Tragedy." New Theatre Quarterly 28, no. 2 (May 2012): 163–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x12000255.
Full textSens, Alexander, and John Wilkins. "The Boastful Chef: The Discourse of Food in Ancient Greek Comedy." Classical World 96, no. 1 (2002): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4352720.
Full textRuffell, Ian. "Nonsense and Meaning in Ancient Greek Comedy by Stephen E. Kidd." Classical World 109, no. 1 (2015): 142–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/clw.2015.0083.
Full textBoegehold, Alan L. "Two ‘Fragmenta Dubia Incertae Sedis’, Possibly Comic." Classical Quarterly 41, no. 1 (May 1991): 247–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009838800003724.
Full textLowe, N. J. "I Comedy: Definitions, Theories, History." New Surveys in the Classics 37 (2007): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017383508000430.
Full textDissertations / Theses on the topic "Ancient Greek Comedy"
Dimitriou, Tzoulia. "Funny love: images of Aphrodite in old comedy." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/31537.
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This study investigates the relationship between Aphrodite's literary image and her cultic role in Athenian civic religion. The plays and fragments, especially those in the Aristophanic corpus, demonstrate that in Old Comedy the goddess not only holds the role of sexualized patroness of femininity, but also reflects the political associations of her Athenian cults. Chapter I investigates the cultic role of Aphrodite in Athens and her place within the Athenian religious and social system. At Athens, Aphrodite reveals aspects beyond her popular panhellenic position as a deity of love and overseer of marriage, but never displays the relationships to sacred prostitution claimed in some late-antique sources. Aphrodite's sanctuaries were associated with such putative pioneers of democracy as Theseus and Solon. The uniquely Athenian cult of Aphrodite Pandemos, worshipped in association with Peitho, emphasized her importance in the Athenian political system as a representative of (seductive) persuasion. Analysis shows that the "Platonic" dichotomy between Aphrodite Pandemos and Urania reflects later (mis)readings of Plato's Symposium. The fragments of Old Comedy (Chapter II) illustrate how Aphrodite aided the introduction of female protagonists onto the comic stage, both as hetaerae, who worshipped Aphrodite as their patroness, and Athenian wives, who were comically depicted as licentious and bibulous. Understanding Aphrodite's role as the mediator between comic raunchiness and female decorum helps explain the origins of the erroneous traditions regarding the dedication of prostitutes to the goddess. Chapters III and IV examine Aphrodite in the Aristophanic corpus, with Chapter IV entirely devoted to the Lysistrata. Aristophanes explores Aphrodite's comic persona to highlight the social and political issues of Athens, often associating the degeneration of the city with men's unnatural connection to Aphrodite. In the Lysistrata, Aphrodite plays her most extensive role in extant comedy and exhibits her political associations. The solidarity of the female protagonists depends on Aphrodite's role as a symbol of unification and social reform. The goddess in association with Athena successfully presides over Lysistrata's peace plot as the embodiment of the late fifth-century political slogan of "eros for the city" played out in the seduction of Kinesias by Myrrhine.
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Polyakov, Maxim. "The power of time : old age and old men in ancient Greek drama." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2d238e6d-e040-479a-ae8f-dcf5ecd7e838.
Full textJackson, Lucy C. M. "The Athenian dramatic chorus in the fourth century BC." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6a2c8350-1b7e-4abb-982b-ff958c8d7276.
Full textPeterson, Anna I. "Laughter in the Exchange: Lucian's Invention of the Comic Dialogue." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275416015.
Full textMcDonald, Matthew William McDonald. "The Good, the Bad, and the Grouch: A Comparison of Characterization in Menander and the Ancient Philosophers." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1461335881.
Full textSpinelli, Helena de Negreiros. "O díscolo: estudo e tradução." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8143/tde-09122009-145805/.
Full textThis work consists in the introductory study and translation of the comedy Dyskolos, of Menander, Greek author of the fourth century BC. The first part of the study includes the presentation of comedy concerning its context and its dramatic structure. The second part is devoted to the analysis of the characters - as a comedy that emphasizes the characters, I consider it important. This section is divided into nine parts, each one devoted to one character, except for the first section entitled The Divine, which presents an analysis of the god Pan and the Nymphs, and the fifth section, entitled Female characters, which conveys the analysis of the girl, the daughter of Knemon of Simike, and of Sostratos mother. The translation, the second one developed in Brazil the first is by Mario da Gama Kury aims to disseminate the work of the Greek author to the Brazilian public. With this purpose, the text was converted to Portuguese on prose, trying to keep its rhythm and language. Besides that, the line of the verse was kept to make it easier the consultation with the original.
Ponelis, Karlien. "Die invloed van die Plautiniese klug op die moderne klug." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52206.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: The present thesis deals with the impact of the ancient Greek farce on modem literature with specific reference to the play Kinkels innie Kabel (1971) by the contemporary Afrikaans author André P. Brink. This play is loosely based on Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, which in tum derives from Plautus' Menaechmi. Brink's play thus resonates with an entire European tradition. The relationship between the modem and the ancient farce is studied with reference to the concept of comedy. Comic effects, the difference between comedy and tragedy in respect of the handling of vital issues and the comic vision of the playwright are all taken into account. The analysis of the development of Athenian Old Comedy to the Roman Comedy refers to the contribution of Plautus and Terence to the continuation and revitalisation of Greek New Comedy. A comparison of these two playwrights reveals the characteristics of the farce and the difference between farce and comedy. The modem relevance of the farce is studied on the basis of Brink's text. For this purpose Plautus' original plot, the Shakespearian version and Brink's rendition are discussed and compared. On the basis of the similarities and differences in plot, caricaturisation, misidentifications, politics, fantasy, coincidence, irony, farcical violence, mechanical structure, temporal structure and linguistic register, the influence of the ancient farce on its modem counterpart is demonstrated. In addition to farce, Brink employs the classical devices of satire and parody to drive home his (political) message. Finally it is shown that the farcical in Plautus, Shakespeare and Brink serves a significant and serious thematic purpose.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie verhandeling handel oor die impak van 'n antieke Griekse komedievorm, die klug, op moderne werke en denke. A.P. Brink se verhoogstuk Kinkels innie Kabel (1971) is 'n vrye verwerking van William Shakespeare se The Comedy of Errors. Laasgenoemde werk is weer op sy beurt gebaseer op Plautus se Menaechmi. In sy verwerking van Plautus en Shakespeare laat A.P. Brink die hele Europese tradisie deurklink. Die verhouding tussen die moderne klug en die antieke klug word bestudeer deur te fokus op die term komedie: die verhouding daarvan met lag en hoe die komedie van die tragedie verskil ten opsigte van die hantering van lewensproblematiek en komiese visie van die komedieskrywer, maak deel uit van hierdie bespreking. Die komedie se herkoms en ontwikkeling vanaf die Ou Komedie tot die Romeinse Komedie, val ook onder die soeklig. In aansluiting hiermee word Plautus en Terentius bespreek as twee komedieskrywers wat 'n rol gespeel het in die oorlewering en verlewendiging van die Griekse Nuwe Komedie. Hierdie twee skrywers word ook met mekaar vergelyk sodat die eienskappe van die klug geïllustreer word, en hoe dit in wese verskil van komedie. Die relevansie van die klug in moderne denke word bestudeer aan die hand van Brink se teks. In hierdie verband word daar 'n uiteensetting gegee van die oorspronklike Plautiniese verhaal, die Shakespeariaanse weergawe en die Brinkiaanse teks. Aan die hand van die ooreenkomste en verskille in intrige, karikaturisering, identiteitsvergissings, politiek, die fantasie-element, toeval, ironie, klugtige geweld, die meganiese struktuur, die tydstruktuur en taalregister word die invloed van die antieke klug op die moderne klug geïllustreer. Benewens die klug word Brink se werk ook verder beïnvloed deur twee klassieke middele, met name satire en parodie. Hiermee bring Brink sy (politieke) boodskap tuis. Ten slotte word die dieperliggende temas in Plautus, Shakespeare en Brink se werk bespreek deur aan te toon dat die werk nie net om die klugtige gaan nie, maar ook die meer ernstige.
Aniceto, Bárbara Alexandre. "As relações de gênero em Aristófanes : um estudo das esposas legítimas na sociedade ateniense (Sécs. V-IV a.C.) /." Franca, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/153674.
Full textResumo: Tradicionalmente reduzida a um impulso exclusivo de comicidade, a inserção de personagens femininas nas comédias de Aristófanes foi lida por alguns historiadores como uma preocupação do teatrólogo em ridicularizar a imagem da mulher grega. Ao nos debruçarmos sobre a leitura das peças Lisístrata (411 a.C.), As Tesmoforiantes (411 a.C.) e Assembleia de Mulheres (392 a.C.), encenadas no contexto da Guerra do Peloponeso e posterior derrota de Atenas, formulamos a hipótese de que a esposa legítima foi representada como mantenedora da cidade ateniense, uma vez que percebemos a ênfase em sua importância cívica por ser considerada um veículo justo de crítica nas peças aristofânicas. Ao problematizar os acontecimentos e decisões políticas de seu período, o comediógrafo o fez inserindo mulheres ativas em suas obras, responsáveis por aconselhar seus maridos sobre aquilo que julgavam prejudicial à pólis. Pela lei de Péricles, vigente a partir de meados do V século a.C., eram essas mulheres ativas que carregavam o compromisso de reproduzir cidadãos atenienses, contribuindo para a manutenção da lógica democrática clássica. Em nossa visão, o poeta publicita a faceta atuante e interventora do feminino justamente porque ela estava calcada na legitimidade da transmissão da cidadania. Pautados na análise da documentação textual e na História de Gênero, pretendemos compreender a participação feminina, especificamente das esposas legítimas, na sociedade ateniense do V e início do IV séculos a.C.,... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: Traditionally reduced to an exclusive comicality impulse, the insertion of female characters in the comedies of Aristophanes was read by some historians as a concern of the playwright in ridiculing the image of Greek woman. When we dive into the reading of Lysistrata (411 BC), Thesmophoriazusae (411 BC) and Assemblywomen (392 BC), staged in the context of the Peloponnesian War and subsequent defeat of Athens, we formulated the hypothesis that the legitimate wife was represented as maintainer of the Athenian city, since we perceive the emphasis in her civic importance as a righteous vehicle of criticism in Aristophanes‘ plots. In problematizing the occurrences and political decisions of his period, the playwright did it inserting active women in his plots; they were responsible for advising their husbands on what they judged to be harmful to the polis. By the law of Pericles, valid since the middle of the fifth century BC, these active women were committed to reproducing Athenian citizens, contributing to the maintenance of the classical democratic logic. In our view, the poet shows the acting and intervening facet of the feminine precisely because it was based on the legitimacy citizenship transmission. Based on the analysis of the textual documentation and on Gender History, we intend to understand the feminine participation, specifically of the legitimate wives, in the Athenian society of the fifth and beginning of the fourth centuries BC, by problematizing the relation bet... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Costa, Natalie. "Ridicule reversed : the failure of aristophanes' mockery and its ironic inspiration." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1385.
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Assan, Libé Nathalie. "Mendiants et mendicité dans la littérature grecque archaïque et classique." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040113.
Full textThis study/PhD thesis is focused on the beggary and the beggar in Greek literature, from Homer to the cynicism. At the beggining, I am dealing with the study of four word groups : πτωχός ‟beggar”, ἀγύρτης ‟begging priest”, ἀλήτης ‟vagabond”, πλάνης ‟wanderer” and ἐπαίτης, προσαίτης, μεταίτης ‟almsman”. The preserved corpus of Greek literature with mention of the beggary is fortuitously restricted to poetry. By her pragmatic function, ancient Greek poetry remains connected with contemporary social problems. My work's aim is to investigate how literary and aesthetic representations of the beggary have a social function. I adopted three methodological perspectives: a semantic study of the beggary (synonyms and connotations), an study of the literary and dramatic functions of that character (sometimes action accelerator, sometimes factor of emotions), and an analysis of his argumentative role in political and moral reflexions about poverty during the fourth century B.C. The motive of the beggary enabled Greek people to consider a type of civic exclusion, and in parallel, to apprehend the nature of the social cohesion. A chronological approach shows that this character, previously a counter-model of the perfect citizen, becomes - when big economical changes arrive - an endearing character, who symbolically reinstates excluded people in the city and indirectly promote public solidarity
Books on the topic "Ancient Greek Comedy"
Performing Greek comedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Find full textThe catharsis of comedy. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1994.
Find full textThe boastful chef: The discourse of food in ancient Greek comedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Find full textSlaves and slavery in ancient Greek comic drama. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Find full textAthenian comedy in the Roman Empire. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Find full text1960-, O'Bryhim Shawn, and Franko George Fredric, eds. Greek and Roman comedy: Translations and interpretations of four representative plays. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001.
Find full textL, Cairns Douglas, Knox Ronald A, Arnaoutoglou Ilias 1964-, and MacDowell Douglas M, eds. Law, rhetoric and comedy in classical Athens: Essays in honour of Douglas M. MacDowell. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2004.
Find full textColvin, Stephen. Dialect in Aristophanes: And the politics of language in ancient Greek literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.
Find full textAlcidamas, Aristophanes, and the beginnings of Greek stylistic theory. Stuttgart: F. Steiner, 1992.
Find full textMenander in Centuripe. Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, 1989.
Find full textBook chapters on the topic "Ancient Greek Comedy"
Sommerstein, Alan H. "Combat Trauma in Athenian Comedy: The Dog That Didn’t Bark." In Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks, 225–36. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137398864_11.
Full textHolmes, Brooke. "Canguilhem and the Greeks: Vitalism Between History and Philosophy." In History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, 107–29. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12604-8_7.
Full text"Greek Comedy." In A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama, 169–229. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470776209.ch4.
Full text"Introduction." In Ancient Greek Comedy, 1–4. De Gruyter, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110646269-001.
Full text"The Characters of Doric Comedy." In Ancient Greek Comedy, 7–28. De Gruyter, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110646269-002.
Full text"Connotations of ‘Comedy’ in Classical Athens." In Ancient Greek Comedy, 29–48. De Gruyter, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110646269-003.
Full text"Types and Functions of Para Prosdokian in Aristophanes – And What About Oxymoron?" In Ancient Greek Comedy, 49–68. De Gruyter, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110646269-004.
Full text"‘Middle Comedy’: An Outdated Term or Still A Useful Notion?" In Ancient Greek Comedy, 69–84. De Gruyter, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110646269-005.
Full text"Glimpses of a Male World: Performing Masculinities in Menander." In Ancient Greek Comedy, 85–108. De Gruyter, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110646269-006.
Full text"Fathers and Sons in Clouds and Wasps." In Ancient Greek Comedy, 111–20. De Gruyter, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110646269-007.
Full textConference papers on the topic "Ancient Greek Comedy"
Chronopoulou, Anna. "Music in the service of the directorial vision: The case study of the theatrical performance of Acharnians in 1976 by the Greek Art Theatre (Theatro Technis)." In 8th International e-Conference on Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences. Center for Open Access in Science, Belgrade, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.32591/coas.e-conf.08.03033c.
Full textMarinis, Agis, Elina Daraklitsa, and Chryssanthi Mitta. "The mask in commedia dell�arte and ancient Greek comedy. A comparative and historical approach, with emphasis on the methodology of acting." In 7th SWS International Scientific Conferences on ART and HUMANITIES ISCAH 2020. STEF92 Technology, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sws.iscah.f2020.7.2/s07.09.
Full textVladetić, Srđan. "Biblioteka Asinija Poliona (bibliotheca asini pollionis): prva javna biblioteka u starom Rimu." In XVI Majsko savetovanje. University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Law, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/upk20.367v.
Full textVladetić, Srđan. "Biblioteka Asinija Poliona (bibliotheca asini pollionis): prva javna biblioteka u starom Rimu." In XVI Majsko savetovanje. University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Law, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/upk20.367v.
Full textStojsih, Sarah E., and Cynthia A. Bir. "Comparison of Experimental and Real-Time Data in Amateur Boxers." In ASME 2009 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2009-206372.
Full textBečvář, Jindřich. "Kruh v egyptské matematice." In Orientalia antiqua nova XXI. Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24132/zcu.2021.10392-1-14.
Full textValenti, Rita, Sebastiano Giuliano, and Emanuela Paternò. "Una rappresentazione digitale del castello Eurialo per l’indagine storico-interpretativa." In FORTMED2020 - Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean. Valencia: Universitat Politàcnica de València, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/fortmed2020.2020.11526.
Full textBallarin, Matteo, and Nadia D'Agnone. "Paesaggio, suolo, tempo: la rappresentazione dei tempi geologici nella citta' di Catania." In International Conference Virtual City and Territory. Roma: Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.8041.
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