The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy

Cover\nGREEK AND ROMAN COMEDY\nCopyright\nCONTENTS\nIntroduction. Ancient Comedy: The longue duree\nPART ONE: GREEK COMEDY\n	I. BEGINNINGS\n		1. In Search of the Essence of Old Comedy: From Aristotle\'s Poetics to Zieli.ski, Cornford, and Beyond\n		2. Performing Comedy in the Fifth through Early Third Centuries\n		3. Dionysiac Festivals in Athens and the Financing of Comic Performances\n	II. THE GREEK COMEDIANS AND THEIR PLAYS\n		4. The First Poets of Old Comedy\n		5. The Last Laugh: Eupolis, Strattis, and Plato against Aristophanes\n		6. Aristophanes\n		7. Comedy in the Fourth Century I: Mythological Burlesques\n		8. Comedy in the Fourth Century II: Politics and Domesticity\n		9. Comedy in the Late Fourth and Early Third Centuries BCE\n		10. Menander\n		11. Reconstructing Menander\n		12. Crossing Genres: Comedy, Tragedy, and Satyr Play\n		13. Crossing Conceptual Worlds: Greek Comedy and Philosophy\n	III. ATTIC COMEDY AND SOCIETY\n		14. The Politics of Comic Athens\n		15. Law and Greek Comedy\n		16. Religion and the Gods in Greek Comedy\n	IV. THE DIFFUSION OF COMEDY IN THE\n		17. The Diffusion of Comedy from the Age of Alexander to the Beginning of the Roman Empire Brigitte Le Guen\n		18. Hellenistic Mime and Its Reception in Rome\nPART TWO: ROMAN COMEDY\n	I. BEGINNINGS\n		19. The Beginnings of Roman Comedy\n		20. Festivals, Producers, Theatrical Spaces, and Records\n		21. Plautus between Greek Comedy and Atellan Farce: Assessments and Reassessments\n	II. THE ROMAN COMEDIANS AND THEIR PLAYS\n		22. Plautus’s Dramatic Predecessors and Contemporaries in Rome\n		23. Plautus and Terence in Performance\n		24. Metrics and Music\n		25. Prologue(s) and Prologi\n		26. Between Two Paradigms: Plautus\n		27. The Terentian Reformation: From Menander to Alexandria\n		28. The Language of the Palliata\n		29. Tragedy, Paratragedy, and Roman Comedy\n	III. ROMAN COMEDY AND SOCIETY\n		30. Roman Comedy and the Social Scene\n		31. Law and Roman Comedy\n		32. Religion in Roman Comedy\nPART THREE: TRANSMISSION AND ANCIENT RECEPTION\n	33. The Transmission of Aristophanes\n	34. Later Greek Comedy in Later Antiquity\n	35. The Rebirth of a Codex: Virtual Work on the Ambrosian Palimpsest of Plautus\n	36. The Transmission of Terence\n	37. Graphic Comedy: Menandrian Mosaics and Terentian Miniatures\n	38. Greek Comedy, the Novel, and Epistolography\n	39. Roman Comedy in the Second Sophistic\n	40. The Reception of Plautus in Antiquity\n	41. Aelius Donatus and His Commentary on Terence’s Comedies\nAppendices\n	1. New Texts: Greek Comic Papyri 1973–3–2010\n	2. Post-Menandrian Comic Poets: An Overview of the Evidence and a Checklist\nIndex