{"product_id":"the-birth-of-comedy-texts-documents-and-art-from-athenian-comic-competitions-486280-9780801894480","title":"The Birth of Comedy Texts Documents and Art from","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA full index includes not only authors, play titles, and persons mentioned, but themes from the whole Greek comic sphere (including politics, literature and philosophy, celebrities and social scandals, cookery and wine, sex, and wealth).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA unique resource for the serious study of comedy, this book is vast in scope and of incalculable value for those who do not read Greek. Choice This book is a landmark, which has come to stay. Bryn Mawr Classical Review This volume, which is aimed at general readers... and whose generous dimensions rival the size of an Oxford Classical Dictionary, will be an essential resource for anyone who wants to inquire into what is known of Athenian comedy beyond the surviving plays of Aristophanes and Menander... Rusten offers a concise and balanced account. New England Classical Journal The Birth of Comedy is a singularly ambitious and very welcome work. Times Literary Supplement A true reference book, to be dipped into when certain facts or information are required and thoughtfully arranged in an accessible style. Scholarly and academic in both approach and scope, this is a valuable resource for anyone interested in or researching not only Ancient Greek comedy but also the history of comic plays, theatre and drama. After twenty years spent compiling the material it is a resource that will not date and one that should provide for interesting scholarly debate and research outcomes. Reference Reviews A valuable scholarly enterprise. Classical Journal It will certainly be appearing on my reading lists in future. Journal of Hellenic Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eSymbols and Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eFragments of Comedy\u003cbr\u003ePrinciples of This Selection\u003cbr\u003eHow to Use This Book\u003cbr\u003eList of Translators and Sections\u003cbr\u003ePlays and Fragments of Special Interest\u003cbr\u003eSources of the Comic Fragments\u003cbr\u003eA Short History of Athenian Comedy\u003cbr\u003eAttested Dates of Athenian Comedies, 486–280 BCE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Beginnings\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Proto-Comedy\u003cbr\u003e2. Epicharmus of Sicily\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Athenian Old Comedy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e3. Festivals, Competitions, and Victory Lists\u003cbr\u003e4. The First and Second Generations (except Cratinus)\u003cbr\u003e5. Cratinus\u003cbr\u003e6. Eupolis\u003cbr\u003e7. Aristophanes\u003cbr\u003e8. Phrynichus and Platon\u003cbr\u003e9. Other Authors, ca. 420–390 BCE\u003cbr\u003e10. Theater, Audience, Actors, Chorus, and Costume of Old and Middle Comedy\u003cbr\u003e11. Scenes from Old or Middle Comedy on Fourth-Century South Italian Vases\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Middle Comedy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e12. Anaxandrides, Eubulus, and Ephippus\u003cbr\u003e13. Antiphanes\u003cbr\u003e14. Timocles and Nicostratus\u003cbr\u003e15. Alexis\u003cbr\u003e16. Other Authors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV. Athenian New Comedy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e17. Masks, Actors, Staging, and Scenes from New Comedy\u003cbr\u003e18. Philemon\u003cbr\u003e19. Menander\u003cbr\u003e20. Diphilus of Sinope\u003cbr\u003e21. Other Authors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e22. Survival of Comedy in Hellenistic Greece and Republican and Imperial Rome\u003cbr\u003e23. Ancient Theories of Comedy and Laughter, and Ancient Writers on Comedy\u003cbr\u003eKomoidoumenoi\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIllustration Credits\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527634690391,"sku":"9780801894480","price":97.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801894480.jpg?v=1731868637","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-birth-of-comedy-texts-documents-and-art-from-athenian-comic-competitions-486280-9780801894480","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}