The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

Introduction Martin Revermann; Part I. Setting the Stage (in Athens and Beyond): 1. Defining the genre David Konstan; 2. The rivals of Aristophanes and Menander Zachary P. Biles; 3. Fourth-century comedy before Menander Keith Sidwell; 4. Epicharmus and early Sicilian comedy Kathryn Bosher; 5. The iconography of comedy Eric Csapo; Part II. Comic Theatre: 6. Dramatic technique and Athenian comedy C. W. Marshall; 7. Character types Ian Ruffell; 8. The language(s) of comedy Andreas Willi; Part III. Central Themes: 9. Laughter Stephen Halliwell; 10. Utopianism Ian Ruffell; 11. The Greek 'comic hero' Ralph M. Rosen; 12. Social class David Kawalko Roselli; 13. Performing gender in Greek Old and New Comedy Helene Foley; 14. Divinity and religious practice Martin Revermann; Part IV. Politics, Law and Social History: 15. The politics of Greek comedy Alan Sommerstein; 16. Comedy and Athenian festival culture Edith Hall; 17. Comedy and Athenian law Victoria Wohl; 18. Comedy and the social historian Susan Lape and Alfonso Moreno; Part V. Reception: 19. Attic comedy in the rhetorical and moralising traditions Richard Hunter; 20. Contexts of reception in antiquity Sebastiana Nervegna; 21. The reception of Greek comedy in Rome Michael Fontaine; 22. The transmission of comic texts Nigel Wilson; 23. Snapshots of Aristophanes and Menander: from spontaneous reception to belated reception study Gonda Van Steen.