The Komos in Aristophanes

Putz, B.

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“…12 Sourvinou-Inwood, 2003, 141 ff., 172-177 expands upon tragedy's relation to dithyramb and primary evidence is an Attic vase of approximately 490 b.c.e. that depicts a chorus moving with identical, stately, and invocatory gestures before a tomb.13 For comedy, there are multiple kinds of comic dancers, reflecting in part the multiple forms of komos, including "padded dancers" from Corinth, Attic depictions of phallic processions, and images of animal choruses, all of which date to a period earlier than comedy's entry into the dramatic competitions.14 In addition, and corresponding to the multiple sources named by Aristotle (Poetics 1448a30, 1448b30, 1449a10, 1449b5),15 Megarian influence is substantiated by a reference to "laughter stolen from Megara" at Wasps 57 and in comic fragcomedy's to the komos, and see Pütz, 2007, 123-128 and, overall, Anderson 2003. For the difficult connection with the statement which follows in the Poetics, that tragedy developed from the brief stories (muthoi) and comic language characteristic of satyr drama, see Pickard-Cambridge, 1988, 89-95;Lucas, Poetics, 84-85;Seaford, 1984, 10-12;andDepew in Csapo andMiller, 2007, 128-132.…”

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Aristophanes and His Tragic Muse

Nelson¹

2016

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Aristophanes and His Tragic Muse

Nelson¹

2016

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“…On the symposium in Greek comedy see in general Legrand 1910, 240 f., 379 f.; Süss 1910, 450-60;Wehrli 1936, 22 f.;Webster 1974, 86-9;Vetta 1983, xxxi f., xlvii, liv-lvii, 119-31;Hunter 1983, 186;Bowie 1995, 113-25;1997, 1-21;Lada-Richards 1999, 128-58, 194-215;Fisher 2000, 355-89;Wilkins 2000, esp. 202-56;Pütz 2003. Dramatized banquets were presented also in mimes: see Sophron frr.…”

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The Drinking Theatre: Staged Symposia in Greek Comedy

Konstantakos¹

2005

mnemosyne

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 IOANNIS M. KONSTANTAKOS A Staged symposia, like those found in some comedies of Plautus (As., Mos., Per., St.), were presented also in Greek comedy: this is indicated by a large number of fragments which present characters drinking and performing sympotic rituals on stage. Sympotic scenes formed a favourite comic spectacle in the 4th century and apparently occurred already in Old Comedy (e.g. Pherekrates' Korianno). Plautus' staged banquets may well have been inspired by Greek scenes of this sort. The lunch-party of the women at the beginning of Menander's Synaristosai can be seen as a variation of the traditional comic banquet-scene; so also certain scenes of Aristophanes (the slaves' drinking-scene in Eq. 85 ff.; the imaginary symposium in V. 1208-48). The comic symposia must have been acted either on the ekkyklema or simply 'on stage', i.e. on the regular performance area for the actors, in front of the scenic façade; by convention, events which would normally take place indoors could be set outside the house in the theatre. An appendix discusses the number of actors in 4th-century comedy: a fourth speaking performer was most probably available for the largest part of the 4th century.© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2005 Mnemosyne, Vol. LVIII, Fasc. 2 Also available online -www.brill.nl 1) I am grateful to Professor Richard Hunter for his valuable comments on an earlier version of this essay.

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“…Lowe (2008) offers a stimulating and wide-ranging survey of work in recent decades. 8 See, for example, Wilkins (2000); Revermann (2006a); Pütz (2007).…”

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Review Article: Comedy

Ruffell

2012

J. Hell. Stud.

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This paper reviews and discusses two major publications on Greek comedy (J. Rusten, The Birth of Comedy and I. Storey, Fragments of Old Comedy) in the light of recent advances and trends in scholarship. It focuses in particular on periodization of the genre, including an evaluation of the contribution of ancient scholarship; the evidence for variety in Old Comedy; the different perspectives on competition within the genre; and the presentation and implications of the comic body. An assessment is offered of the impact on scholarship of large-scale research projects such as Kassel and Austin's Poetae Comici Graeci and Koster et al.'s Scholia in Aristophanem, as well as the growing material evidence for Greek comedy, its context and reception. Some significant ongoing problems are identified which require further study.

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The Komos in Aristophanes

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Aristophanes and His Tragic Muse

Aristophanes and His Tragic Muse

The Drinking Theatre: Staged Symposia in Greek Comedy

Review Article: Comedy

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