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Old Comedy 1982-1991

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2015

Ian C. Storey
Ian C. Storey*
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Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario
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A version of this commentary and bibliography was originally presented at the ‘Greek Drama II’ conference in Christchurch in February 1992. A subtitle could have been ‘What's been done since Sydney’ (site of ‘Greek Drama I’ in 1982), since my topic was to present a survey of the work of the past decade in Old Comedy. In a short period I cannot deal with all plays and topics, but will limit myself to six areas of discussion: (a) general studies, (b) Aristophanes’ early career, (c) Aristophanes and politics, (d) ritual as sub-text, (e) women in comedy, and (f) Eupolis and Kratinos.

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Antichthon , Volume 26 , November 1992 , pp. 1 - 29
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Copyright © Australasian Society for Classical Studies 1992

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References

1 See my treatment of the period 1975-1984 in Storey [177].

2 It will be remembered that Norwood, Gilbert (Greek Comedy [London 1931] 298)Google Scholar denied humour to Aristophanes, as opposed to fun or wit.

3 See Murray, G., Aristophanes (Oxford 1933) 117 Google Scholar.

4 For a completely different approach to the overtures to peace in 425 as they appear in Knights see Worthington [196], for whom Aristophanes was anything but a Spartan partisan.

5 EMC 33 (1989) 395-8Google Scholar.

6 The review by MacDowell, D.M., CR 37 (1987) 152 f.Google Scholar is excellent, and like MacDowell I still cannot understand what Thiercy means by his ‘structure erotique’.

7 Mastromarco, G., ‘L'esordio “segreto” di Aristofane’, QS 5 (1979) 153–192 Google Scholar; Halliwell, S., ‘Aristophanes’ “Apprenticeship”’, CQ 30 (1980) 33–45 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

8 Dow, S., ‘Some Athenians in Aristophanes’, AJA 73 (1969) 234 f.Google Scholar

9 Gomme, A.W., ‘Aristophanes and Politics’, CR 52 (1938) 97–109 Google Scholar; de Ste Croix, G.E.M., ‘The Political Outlook of Aristophanes’, Appendix XXIX of his The Origins of the Peloponnesian War (Ithaca 1972) 355–376 Google Scholar.

10 On Hubbard's stimulating and important study see my review forthcoming in EMC, also the lengthy review by Rosen, R.M. in BMCR 3 (1992) 130–137 Google Scholar.

11 Carrière, J.C., Le Carnaval et la Politique (Paris 1979)Google Scholar; Bakhtin, M., Rabelais and his World [tr. Iswolsky, H.] (Cambridge 1984)Google Scholar.

12 On the date of the reproduction of Frogs see Arnott [46] for the bibliography.

13 CR 38 (1988) 215–217 Google Scholar.

14 JHS 109 (1989) 222 fGoogle Scholar.

15 Taplin, O., Greek Tragedy in Action (Oxford 1978) 162 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

16 Tierney, M., ‘The Parodos in Aristophanes’ Frogs’, Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 42 Section C (1935) 199–218 Google Scholar.

17 The role of the ephebe has assumed a considerable importance with Winkler's study (in [39], pp. 20-62) where he argues that the choruses of Greek drama were made up of ephebes, part of their rite of passage. Thus the sub-text of the ephebeia has a certain poignant force here.

18 Stanford, W.B., Aristophanes Frogs (London 1963) xviii–xxi Google Scholar.

19 Ehrenberg, V., The People of Aristophanes (New York 1962)Google Scholar; Pomeroy, S., Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves (New York 1975)Google Scholar.

20 The fragments of Aristophanes’ close contemporary, Eupolis, who died in 411, show a treatment of women that resembles the pre-411 plays by Aristophanes. There is nothing in Eupolis at all reminiscent of Lysistrate.

21 Shaw, M., ‘The “female intruder’”, CPh 70 (1975) 255–266 Google Scholar.

22 See also the fine article by Loraux, N. on Lysistrate, ‘L'acropole comique’, Anc. Soc. 11/12 (1980/1981) 119–150 Google Scholar, who stresses the primacy of laughter in the creation of comedy.

23 See Storey [177] 29 n.65.

24 Zweig, B., ‘The Mute Nude Female Figures in Aristophanes’ Plays’, in Richlin, A. (ed.), Pornography and Representation in Greece & Rome (New York/Oxford 1992) 73–89 Google Scholar.

25 Mattingly, H.B., ‘Poets and Politicians in fifth-century Greece’, in Kinzl, K.H. (ed ), Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean in Ancient History and Prehistory (Berlin/New York 1977) 231–245 Google Scholar.

26 A further study ‘Notus est omnibus Eupolis’ has now appeared in Sommerstein, A.H. et al. (edd.), Tragedy, Comedy and the Polis (Bari 1993) 373–396 Google Scholar.

27 Plepelits, K., Die Fragmente der Demen des Eupolis (Vienna 1970)Google Scholar.

28 See also my discussion (n.26).