Fragments of Menander in Stobaeus

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Figures XI
5. List of Tables XIII
6. Introduction
7. οὐ σῴζεται or σῴζονται: Preliminary Remarks on the Study of Dramatic Fragments Today 3
8. Part I: Quotation, Transmission, and Reconstruction of Fragments
9. On the Hermeneutics of the Fragment 21
10. Old Comic Citation of Tragedy As Such 39
11. On Literary Fragmentation and Quotation in Aristophanes: Some Theoretical Considerations 49
12. On Types of Fragments 61
13. How Long Did the Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy Survive? 83
14. What we Do (Not) Know about Lost Comedies: Fragments and Testimonia 105
15. The Fragments of Aristophanes’ Gerytades: Methodological Considerations 129
16. Fragments of Aeschylus and the Number of Actors 145
17. Part II: Fragmented Tragedy
18. Revisiting the Danaid Trilogy 155
19. Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta Volume II: Old Texts, New Opportunities 165
20. παῖς μάργος 183
21. Aeschylus’ Actaeon: A Playboy on the Greek Tragic Stage? 201
22. Euripides or Critias, or Neither? Reflections on an Unresolved Question 235
23. Fragmented Intergeneric Discourses: Epinician Echoes in Euripides’ Alexandros 257
24. Wink or Twitch? Euripides’ Autolycus (fr. 282) and the Ideologies of Fragmentation 275
25. Barbarism and Fragmentation in Fifth- Century Tragedy: Barbarians in the Fragments and “Fragmented” Barbarians 299
26. Part III: Fragmented Comedy
27. Epicharmus, Odysseus Automolos: Some Marginal Remarks on frr. 97 and 98 K–A 321
28. δηλαδὴ τρίπους: On Epicharmus fr. 147 K–A 337
29. Crates and the Polis: Reframing the Case 353
30. On Some Short (and Dubious) Fragments of Aristophanes 369
31. Heracles’ Adventures at the Inn, or How Fragments and Plays Converse 379
32. Ethnic Stereotypes and Ethnic Mockery in Ancient Greek Comedy 407
33. Part IV: The Reception of Tragic Fragments
34. Aeschylean Fragments in the Herculaneum Papyri: More Questions than Answers. Prometheus Unbound in Philodemus’ On Piety 437
35. Paratragic Fragmentation and Patchwork- Citation as Comic Aesthetics: The Potpourri Use of Euripides’ Helen and Andromeda in Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae and Their Symbolic Meaning 453
36. Fragmentary Comedy and the Evidence of Vase-Painting: Euripidean Parody in Aristophanes’ Anagyros 481
37. Α Cause for Fragmentation: Tragic Fragments in Plato’s Republic 501
38. Dio Chrysostom and the Citation of Tragedy 527
39. From the Great Banquets of Aeschylus: Gorgias, Aristophanes and Xenakis’ Oresteia 545
40. Part V: The Reception of Comic Fragments
41. How Cratinus fr. 372 Made Theatre History 573
42. Increasing Comic Fragmentation: Some Aspects of Text Re-uses in Athenaeus 603
43. πλῆθος ὅσον ἰχθύων ... ἐπὶ πινάκων ἀργυρῶν (Ath. 6.224b): A Different Kettle of Fish 617
44. Fragments of Menander in Stobaeus 647
45. The Long Shadow of Fame: Quotations from Epicharmus in Works of the Imperial Period 663
46. List of Contributors 691
47. Index of Sources 697
48. General Index 717