Introduction: comedy as a fabric of generic discourse Emmanuela Bakola, Lucia Prauscello and Mario Tel- Part I. Comedy and Genre: Self-Definition and Development: 1. Greek dramatic genres: theoretical perspectives Michael Silk 2. Comedy and the Pompe: Dionysian genre-crossing Eric Csapo 3. Iambos, comedy and the question of generic affiliation Ralph Rosen Part II. Comedy and Genres in Dialogue: 4. Paraepic comedy: point(s) and practices Martin Revermann 5. Epic, nostos and generic genealogy in Aristophanes' Peace Mario Tel- 6. Comedy and the civic chorus Chris Carey 7. Aristophanes' Simonides: lyric models for praise and blame Richard Rawles 8. Comedy versus tragedy in Wasps Matthew Wright 9. Crime and punishment: Cratinus on Aeschylus, on the metaphysics and on the politics of wealth Emmanuela Bakola 10. From Achilles' horses to a cheese-seller's shop: on the history of the guessing game in Greek drama Marco Fantuzzi and David Konstan 11. The Aesopic in Greek comedy Edith Hall 12. The mirror of Aristophanes: the winged ethnographers of Birds (1470-93, 1553-64, 1694-1705) Jeffrey Rusten Part III. The Reception of Comedy and Comic Discourse: 13. Comedy and comic discourse in Plato's Laws Lucia Prauscello 14. Comedy and the Pleiad: Alexandrian tragedians and the birth of comic scholarship Nick Lowe.
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