Uses of Athenian comedy by the imperial sophists
Keywords:
Rhetoric. Literature. Greek Comedy. Second Sophistic.Abstract
In this paper we intend to shed some light on a few selected examples of uses of the Athenian comic poetry by the imperial sophists. For that we first place the imperial sophistic works in their historical context and, then, we analyze briefly a few specific cases in the works of, for example, Lucian, Dio Chrysostom, Favorinus and Choricius. We hope that this work reveals something about the ways of the literary mimesis under the Empire, understanding the intersection between rhetoric and literature.
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_______________. “Aelian and Comedy: Four Studies”. In: MARSHALL, C.W. & HAWKINS, T. (eds.) Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire. London: Bloomsbury, 2016, pp. 197-222.
MANZIONE, C. “Per un’introduzione al Rhetor di Coricio di Gaza”. In: AMATO, E.; THÉNEVET, L. & VENTRELLA, G. Discorso pubblico e declamazione scolastica a Gaza nella tarda antichità: Coricio di Gaza e la sua opera. Bari: Edizioni di Pagina, 2015, pp. 170-203.
MORGAN, T. Literate Education in Hellenistic and Roman Worlds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
NOLÈ, M. “La προθεωρία: riflessioni su un genere”. InvLuc, 35-36, 2013-2014, pp. 227-254.
PENELLA, R. (ed.) Rhetorical Exercises from Late Antiquity: A Translation of Choricius of Gaza's Preliminary Talks and Declamations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
PETERSON, A. Laughter in the Exchange: Lucian’s Invention of the Comic Dialogue. Dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of the Ohio State University. 2010.
____________. “Revoking comic license: Aristides’ Or. 29 and the Performance of Comedy”. In: MARSHALL, C.W. & HAWKINS, T. (eds.) Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire. London: Bloomsbury, 2016, pp. 181-196.
____________. Laughter on the Fringes: The Reception of Old Comedy in the Imperial Greek World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019
PUECH, B. Orateurs et sophistes grecs dans les inscriptions d’époque impériale. Paris: VRIN, 2002.
PUPPINI, P. “Allusioni menandree in Coricio”. In: Gentili, B; Grilli, A & Perusino, F. (eds.) Per Carlo Corbato: scritti di filologia greca e latina. Pisa, 1999, pp. 109-127.
ROSEN, R.M. “Lucian’s Aristophanes: On Understanding Old Comedy in the Roman Imperial Period”. In: MARSHALL, C.W. & HAWKINS, T. (eds.) Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire. London: Bloomsbury, 2016, pp. 141-162.
SAMUELS, R.B. “Favorinus and the Comic Adultery Plot”. In: MARSHALL, C.W. & HAWKINS, T. (eds.) Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire. London: Bloomsbury, 2016, pp. 89-116.
SCHMITZ, T. Bildung und Macht: zur sozialen und politischen Funktion der zweiten Sophistik in der griechischen Welt der Kaiserzeit. München: C. H. Beck Verlag, 1997.
___________. "Performing History in the Second Sophistic", in: Geschichtsschreibung und politischer Wandel im 3. Jh. n. Chr. Kolloquium zu Ehren von Karl-Ernst Petzold (Juni 1998) anläßlich seines 80. Geburtstags, hrsg. von Martin Zimmermann (Historia Einzelschriften 127), Wiesbaden 1999, 71–92.
__________. "Alciphron's Letters as Sophistic Texts", in: BORG, B.E. (ed.) Paideia. The World of the Second Sophistic. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004, pp. 87–104.
STEVENSON, W. “The rise of eunuchs in Greco-Roman Antiquity”. Journal of the History of Sexuality, 5, 4, 1995, pp. 495-511.
SWAIN, S. “Favorinus and Hadrian”. ZPE, Bd. 79, 1989, pp. 150-158.
________. Hellenism and Empire: Language, Classicism, and Power in the Greek World, AD 50-250. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
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