COSTUME (.C~t-DY IN ARISTOPHANIC £! .BQ■ Tllb Is a volJulwI n ,,,. ........ Compony coll«tlon MONOGRAPHS IN CLASSICAL STUDIES Advisory Editor W.R. Connor Edllorlal Board E. Badia■ P .E. Ea1terlln1 David Furley Michael H. Jameson W.R. Johnson Bernard M.W. Knox Jacq•llne de RomUly Sn last pa1a of tltls volum• for a compl6t• list of tltla. * COSTUME U!l'\CP IN ARISTOPHANIC POET~ Laun M. Stone AYER COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, INC. SALEM, NEW HAMPSHIRE 03079 Editorial Supervision: Steve Bedney Reprint Edition 1984 A YER Company. Publishers, Inc. 47 Pelham Road Salem, New Hampshitt0 3019 MONOGRAPHS IN CLASSICALS TUDIES ISBN for complete set: 0-405-14025-8 See last pages of this volume for titles. Manufactured In the United States of America eaa.-... UINsr)' o1 Co11pa1 1a Paltllaldoa Data Stone, L&ura H. Co•taa• ill Ari■tophanic comedJ. (Monographs ill clasaical. ■tu41e■) Rendon ot theaia (Ph. D.)--unJ.nnit;r ot Borth Carol.1.Da, 1971. Bibl.iogrll})llT: P• Include■ lndez. 1. production. 2. Coatae Ariatopbane■--Dramatic Oreece. I. Title. II. Serie■ • PA3879.S74 1981 792.2•3•0260938 80-2669 ISBR 0-405-1~052-5 AACR2 COSTUMEI N ARISTOPBANICC OMEDY by Laura M. Stone 1980 Acknowledgements I gratefully acknowledge the help of many friends and who offered on varioua problems discussed scholar■ ■ugge■tions in works Robert Sutton, Prof. Charles Murphy of Oberlin thi■ College, Prof. Mark Philip Stadter, Edwin Davie■, Prof■• Brown and Mary Sturgeon of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Prof. Jeffrey Henderson of the University of w. Michigan, Prof. R. Connor of Princeton, and Prof. D.B. Thompson of the for Advanced Study. Special thanks In■titute go to Prof. Kenneth Rackford of the University of North Carolina, who first suggested this work as a dissertation, and who has since guided and adviaed its progress with wisdom, patience, humor, and an unfailing Aristophanic spirit, and to my husband, Prof. Mark Barnard, who gave excellent advice and constant moral support. Funding for the preparation of the manuscript was provided by a grant from the Graduate School Council of Wake Forest University. Chapel Hill 1980 ii TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS •• • • V . . . . . . . . . INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTERO NE, ELEMENTSO F COMIC COSTUME 18 A. The Mask • 19 . . . . ' B. The Wig 60 . . . . . . . . C. The Phallus 72 . . . . . . . . . D. The Padding 127 E. r'ullvd"c and Nakedness 144 . . F. Garments 155 . . . . . . . . . . . G. Headgear 198 H. Footwear. 222 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I. Access or iea .. 244 CHAPTER TWO, COSTUME AND CHARACTER 267 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. Male Characters 267 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B. Female Characters 297 c. Gods and Heroes 309 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ill • D. Special Characters • • 341 . . . . . . E. The Costume of the Chorus 376 . . . . . CHAPTER THREE, COSTUME CHANGES 398 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. Transformations 399 8, Changes of Costume and Changes of Fortune • • • 404 c. . . . . . . . Disguise. 407 iii . . . . D. Disrobing 423 CONCLUSION • • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439 APPENDIX, COSTUMEA ND THE ORIGINS OF OLD COMEDY• 446 . . . . . . . . . . LIST OP FIGURES. 453 . . FIGURES • 456 . . . . . . . INDEX TO PASSAGES .. 503 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BIBLIOGRAPHY 513 iv LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ABV J.D. Beazley, Attic Black-figure Vase-painters (Oxford, 1956). J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1963). A.W. Pickard-Cambridge, The Dramatic Festivals of Athens (Oxford, 1953~ A.W. Pickard-Cambridge, The Dramatic Festivals of Athens, rev. ed. by Joiin Gould and D.M. Lewis (Oxford, 1968). 1 DTC A.W. Pickard-Cambridge, Oithyramb, Tragedy and Comedy (Oxford, 1927). A.W. Pickard-Cambridge, Dithyramb, Tragedy and Comedy, rev. ed. by T.B.L. Webster (Oxford, 1962). Denk. Margarete Bieber, Die Denkmaler zum Theaterwesen im Altertum (Berlin, 1920). -- T.B.L. Webster, Greek Theatre Production, 2nd ed. (London, 1970). Margarete Bieber, The Historl of the Greek and Roman Theater (Princeton, 1 39).-- -- Margarete Bieber, The Historr of the Greek and Roman Theater, rev. ed. (Pr nceton, 1961). LSJ H.G. Lidell and Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, rev. by H.S. Jones and R. McKenzie (Oxford, 1968). T.B.L. Webster, Monuments Illustrating Old and Middle Comedy, 3rd. ed., rev. J.R. Green (BICS, Suppl. 39), 1978. A.O. Trendall, Phlyax Vases, 2nd ed. (BICS, Suppl. 19), 1967. RE Paulys Realencyclopadie der klassischen Altertwns wissenschaft, ed. GeorgwI'ssowa (Stuttgart, lB94- ). Note: All journal titles are abbreviated in accordance with the 1977 Annie Philologigue. V