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Ethnic Stereotypes and Ethnic Mockery in Ancient Greek Comedy

Fragmentation in Ancient Greek Drama, 2020
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John Wilkins: The boastful chef: the discourse of food in ancient Greek comedy

Petits Propos Culinaires
John Wilkins: The boastful chef: the discourse of food in ancient Greek comedy: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Andrew Dalby
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LGgK: Lexical database of the realia in ancient Greek comedy

2021
The paper presents a new database collecting artifacts mentioned in ancient Greek comedy (LGgK). The first part of the paper explains the choice of Greek comedy as primary source of information on artifacts. The second part shows the project's technical basis and the data processing, as well as how to use the database.
A. Novokhatko, L. Glaser, B. Gavazza, V. Mastellari   +3 more
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Who "Invented" Comedy? The Ancient Candidates for the Origins of Comedy and the Visual Evidence

American Journal of Philology, 2006
The formal beginning of comedy is firmly dated to the Dionysia of 486 B.C.E.1 For what preceded it there were at least three ancient candidates: phallic processions, Doric comedy and Susarion. Each is supported by visual evidence of the sixth century B.C.E., each explains certain features of Old Comedy, but all have some anomalies as well. Striking is
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Shaping comedy: Plassō in the Scholia Vetera on Aristophanes and its intellectual background

Bulletin of The Institute of Classical Studies
Ancient critics used the verb πλάσσω both neutrally, to describe artistic invention, and pejoratively, to expose poetic forgeries. Commentators on Aristophanes’ comedies drew on its broad semantic range to characterize diverse aspects of his work ...
Valeria Melis
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The Humor of Metatheater in Greek and Roman Comedy

Helios
:Moments of scripted or on-stage laughter in the plays of Aristophanes, Plautus, and Terence help us understand how the humor of overt metatheater worked in ancient comedy and what role metatheatrical humor played in a comic production.
Erin K. Moodie
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From Zurishaddai to Menachem Mendel: The Shlemiel’s Journey from Ancient to Modern Israel

Naharaim
This essay explores the evolution and resilience of the shlemiel, a central figure in two millennia of Jewish culture. Rooted in biblical narratives, the shlemiel transitions eventually into a symbol of Yiddish and Eastern European diasporic life ...
Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
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Patriarchy and New Comedy in Ancient Athens and Rome: Revisiting Northrop Frye's “Mythos of Spring: Comedy”

HUMOR, 2014
AbstractFew theoretical statements about comic drama and fiction can match the influence of Northrop Frye's essay, “Mythos of Spring: Comedy.” Particularly for scholars interested not only in classic comic literary forms such as stage comedy, but also in the popular forms of contemporary films as well as television sitcoms, Frye's theory continues to ...
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Pierre Corneille’s Comedy without Laughter and its Role in the Development of Neoclassical Comedy in France

Филология
The emerging neoclassical dramaturgy in France (1720s and 1730s) explicitly sought its aesthetic foundations in ancient poetics and practices. Inspired by a rather radical interpretative development of these by Heinsius, the French playwright Pierre ...
Vesela Genova
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[Technical medicine in ancient comedy].

Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 1995
The texts of Greek comedy offer a panoramic vision of the evolution of medicine between the fifth and the third centuries. They provide an excellent way to understand the prejudices and the bases of technical medicine and its relationship with popular medicine. Comedy also shows us a vivid portrait of the physician and his position in Greek society.
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