Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Illustrations XI
5. Introduction XII
6. Part I: Dramatic Texts: Form, Music, Narrative
7. Bacchylides’ Ode 5 and Sophocles’ Trachiniae: Lyric Poetry and Tragedy 3
8. On Misunderstanding Apollo: The Oracle and Its Consequences in Soph. O.R. 13
9. “And They Lived Happily Ever After”? A Tentative Taxonomy of (More or Less) Happy Endings in Euripides 21
10. Fantastic Beasts and How to Use Them: Animal Characters and Choruses in Old Comedy 45
11. Juxtaposing and Contrasting Modes of Speech Presentation in Aristophanes’ Knights 624–690: Narrative Techniques, Performance, and Plot 81
12. A ‘Metic’ Prometheus in Aristophanes’ Birds 101
13. Ein neues Fragment des Komödiendichters Aristomenes 121
14. “Is Your Roof Leaking Anywhere?” Euripides’ Danae Transformed Into Menander’s Samia 137
15. Osservazioni sull’uso delle soluzioni anapestiche nei trimetri giambici di Filemone 147
16. Part II: Theatre, Society, Perception
17. The Audience in the Time of the Athenian Theatrocracy 171
18. Tür, Bühnenkran, Ekkyklema: Zu Aristophanes’ Technik der Evokation des Imaginativen 199
19. Remarks on the Ancient Theatre in Aegina 219
20. Dikaiopolis’ Spatiotemporal Coordinates in Aristophanes’ Acharnians 235
21. Spielen und Tanzen für die Demokratie. Zur politischen Funktion des Theaters in den „Fröschen“ des Aristophanes 257
22. On Comedy, Football and (Once Again) the Impact of Theatre on Spectators’ Reactions 287
23. Clio Smiles: Greek Comedy As and For Historiography 307
24. Meditation und Panegyrik in Brixen: Joseph Reschs Pastor bonus (1748) 321
25. “I Had a Little Nut-Tree” 338
26. Part III: Dramatic Texts and Theatre Through the Eyes of Ancient Scholars
27. Un teatro per l’impero. Le citazioni drammatiche in Plinio il Vecchio e Svetonio 347
28. Julius Pollux on the Theatre (4.99–154) 371
29. Taking it on Trust?: Euripides and the Epistemological Tradition 389
30. Scholars on Comedians on Lyric Poets: Ar. Nub. 967 from Stesichorus to Didymus 407
31. Citazioni di Eschilo negli scholia all’Iliade 431
32. Where Narrative Meets Drama: argumentum as a Term for (Realistic) Fiction 439
33. Poetae comici satyrographi. Euanthius’ griechische Komödiengeschichte in bikulturellem Kontext 455
34. List of Contributors 473
35. General Index
36. Index of Passages