Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (451 pages)
- Brill's Companions to Classical Reception Series ; v.8 .
- Brill's Companions to Classical Reception Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1 Aristophanes, Ancient and Modern: Debates, Education, and Juxtapositions -- 1 Aristophanes in Antiquity: Reputation and Reception -- 2 Modern Theory and Aristophanes -- 3 Aristophanes, Gender, and Sexuality -- 4 Aristophanes, Education, and Performance in Modern Greece -- 5 Teaching Aristophanes in the American College Classroom -- 6 The "English Aristophanes": Fielding, Foote, and Debates over Literary Satire -- 7 Teknomajikality and the Humanimal in Aristophanes' Wasps -- 8 Branding Irony: Comedy and Crafting the Public Persona -- Part 2 Outreach: Adaptations, Translations, Scholarship, and Performances -- 9 Aristophanes in Early-Modern Fragments: Le Loyer's La Néphélococugie (1579) and Racine's Les Plaideurs (1668) -- 10 Aristophanes and the French Translations of Anne Dacier -- 11 The Verbal and the Visual: Aristophanes' Nineteenth-Century English Translators -- 12 Comedy and Tragedy in Agon(y): The 1902 Comedy Panathenaia of Andreas Nikolaras -- 13 J.T. Sheppard and the Cambridge Birds of 1903 and 1924 -- 14 Murray's Aristophanes -- 15 "Attic Salt into an Undiluted Scots": Aristophanes and the Modernism of Douglas Young -- 16 Classical Reception in Posters of Lysistrata: The Visual Debate Between Traditional and Feminist Imagery -- 17 Afterword -- General Bibliography -- Index Nominum et Rerum.
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes provides a substantive account of the reception of Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BC) from Antiquity to the present.
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Aristophanes-Criticism and interpretation. Aristophanes-Appreciation.