Greek 7171: Fragments of Greek Comedy

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Greek 7171
The Fragments of Greek Comedy
Fall 2009

Tuesdays, 1:25-4:30, Olin Library 603

Jeffrey Rusten

Apulian red-figured bell krater by the Dijon painter, ca. 380-370 BCE, Museo nazionale Bari inv. 3899

The fragments of Athenian comedy, 486-280 BCE. Readings of the substantial remains of comedies apart from the 11 preserved plays of Aristophanes and the three of Menander. Particular attention to the evidence for the earliest comedy and its relation to politics, the plays of Aristophanes' rivals Cratinus (Plutuses, Dionysalexander, The Wine-flask) and Eupolis (Demes, Baptai, Toadies, Maricas), the 4th century comedy of Antiphanes and Timocrates, the more than 100 paintings from Southern Italy illustrating scenes of 4th century comedy, Menander's partially-preserved plays (She Gets a Haircut, The Shield, the Sicyonian), and the plays that lie behind the Latin adaptations of the third and second centuries BCE.