THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF G R E E K A N D R O M A N  C O M E DY 0000__99778800119999774433554444__FFMM..iinndddd ii 1100//2233//22001133 22::2277::1166 PPMM 0000__99778800119999774433554444__FFMM..iinndddd iiii 1100//2233//22001133 22::2277::1199 PPMM THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF GREEK AND ROMAN COMEDY Edited by MICHAEL FONTAINE and ADELE C. SCAFURO 1 0000__99778800119999774433554444__FFMM..iinndddd iiiiii 1100//2233//22001133 22::2277::1199 PPMM 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. 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Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Th e Oxford handbook of Greek and Roman comedy / edited by Michael Fontaine and Adele C. Scafuro. pages. cm Includes index. ISBN 978–0–19–974354–4 1. Greek drama (Comedy)—History and criticism. 2. Latin drama (Comedy)—History and criticism. I. Fontaine, Michael. II. Scafuro, Adele C. PA3028.O87 2013 882’.0109—dc23 2013004230 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 0000__99778800119999774433554444__FFMM..iinndddd iivv 1100//2233//22001133 22::2277::1199 PPMM Contents List of Contributors x i List of Abbreviations x iii Introduction. Ancient Comedy: Th e longue durée 1 Adele C. Scafuro PART ONE: GREEK COMEDY I. BEGINNINGS 1. In Search of the Essence of Old Comedy: From Aristotle’s P oetics to Zieliński, Cornford, and Beyond 33 Jeffrey   Rusten 2. Performing Comedy in the Fifth through Early Third Centuries 50 Eric   Csapo 3. Dionysiac Festivals in Athens and the Financing of Comic Performances  70 Andronike   Makres II. THE GREEK COMEDIANS AND THEIR PLAYS 4. The First Poets of Old Comedy 95 Ian   Storey 5. The Last Laugh: Eupolis, Strattis, and Plato against Aristophanes 113 Mario   Telò 6. Aristophanes 132 Bernhard Zimmermann 0000__99778800119999774433554444__FFMM..iinndddd vv 1100//2233//22001133 22::2277::1199 PPMM vi CONTENTS 7 . Comedy in the Fourth Century I: Mythological Burlesques 160 Ioannis M. Konstantakos 8. Comedy in the Fourth Century II: Politics and Domesticity 181 Jeffrey Henderson 9. Comedy in the Late Fourth and Early Third Centuries  BCE 199 Adele C. Scafuro 10. Menander 218 Adele C. Scafuro 11. Reconstructing Menander 2 39 Alain Blanchard 12. Crossing Genres: Comedy, Tragedy, and Satyr Play 258 Johanna   Hanink 13. Crossing Conceptual Worlds: Greek Comedy and Philosophy 278 David Konstan III. ATTIC COMEDY AND SOCIETY 14. The Politics of Comic Athens 297 David Rosenbloom 15. Law and Greek Comedy 321 Emiliano J.   Buis 16. Religion and the Gods in Greek Comedy 340 Scott Scullion IV. THE DIFFUSION OF COMEDY IN THE HELLENISTIC WORLD 17. The Diffusion of Comedy from the Age of Alexander to the Beginning of the Roman Empire  359 Brigitte L e Guen 0000__99778800119999774433554444__FFMM..iinndddd vvii 1100//2233//22001133 22::2277::1199 PPMM CONTENTS vii 18. Hellenistic Mime and Its Reception in Rome 378 Costas Panayotakis PART TWO: ROMAN COMEDY I. BEGINNINGS 19. The Beginnings of Roman Comedy 401 Peter G. McC. Brown 20. Festivals, Producers, Theatrical Spaces, and Records 4 09 George Fredric   Franko 21. Plautus between Greek Comedy and Atellan Farce: Assessments and Reassessments 424 Antonis K. Petrides II. THE ROMAN COMEDIANS AND THEIR PLAYS 22. Plautus’s Dramatic Predecessors and Contemporaries in Rome 447 Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo 23. Plautus and Terence in Performance 462 Erica M.   Bexley 24. Metrics and Music 4 77 M arcus D eufert 25. Prologue(s) and P rologi 498 Boris   Dunsch 26. Between Two Paradigms: Plautus 516 Michael Fontaine 27. The Terentian Reformation: From Menander to Alexandria 538 Michael Fontaine 28. The Language of the P alliata 555 Evangelos Karakasis 0000__99778800119999774433554444__FFMM..iinndddd vviiii 1100//2233//22001133 22::2277::1199 PPMM viii CONTENTS 29. Tragedy, Paratragedy, and Roman Comedy 580 Gesine Manuwald III. ROMAN COMEDY AND SOCIETY 30. Roman Comedy and the Social Scene 601 Erich   Gruen 31. Law and Roman Comedy 615 Jan Felix Gaertner 32. Religion in Roman Comedy 6 34 Boris   Dunsch PART THREE: TRANSMISSION AND ANCIENT RECEPTION 33. The Transmission of Aristophanes 655 Nigel   Wilson 34. Later Greek Comedy in Later Antiquity 667 Heinz-Günther Nesselrath 35. The Rebirth of a Codex: Virtual Work on the Ambrosian Palimpsest of Plautus 680 Walter Stockert 36. The Transmission of Terence 699 Benjamin   Victor 37. Graphic Comedy: Menandrian Mosaics and Terentian Miniatures 717 Sebastiana Nervegna 38. Greek Comedy, the Novel, and Epistolography 735 Regina Höschele 39. Roman Comedy in the Second Sophistic 753 Regine   May 40. The Reception of Plautus in Antiquity 767 Rolando   Ferri 0000__99778800119999774433554444__FFMM..iinndddd vviiiiii 1100//2233//22001133 22::2277::1199 PPMM CONTENTS ix 41. Aelius Donatus and His Commentary on Terence’s Comedies 782 Chrysanthi Demetriou Appendices 1. New Texts: Greek Comic Papyri 1973–2010 8 03 Eftychia Bathrellou 2. Post-Menandrian Comic Poets: An Overview of the Evidence and a Checklist 871 Benjamin   Millis Index 8 85 0000__99778800119999774433554444__FFMM..iinndddd iixx 1100//2233//22001133 22::2277::1199 PPMM