New Comedy and Roman Comedy: With and Without Menander

Abstract: ENGLISH As the only surviving representative of New Comedy, Menander offers an interesting case-study of how ancient perceptions of genre definition, qualification and categorization may be subjected to ongoing renegotiation, but also how this ever-changing appreciation influences our understanding of the evolution of Comedy, both in Greece and in Rome. More specifically, with the discovery of Menander the genre of Ancient Comedy acquired a third area, ‘New’ Comedy – a ‘Newness’ originally perceived chronologically, but in recent decades, increasingly in terms of poetics. From a different perspective, the fortune of the Menander discovery (and the lack of other extant texts from New Comedy authors) resulted to the (uncritical) designation of Menander as representative par excellence of New Comedy, a designation that most recent research, however, has come to disprove. Roman Comedy was likewise appreciated, to a considerable degree, in comparison to Menander; and .... https://www.thersites-journal.de/index.php/thr/article/view/19

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

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• Bibliographic citation: New Comedy and Roman Comedy: With and Without Menander ; volume:2 ; day:28 ; month:12 ; year:2015 ; Thersites ; 2 (28.12.2015)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Sophia Papaioannou

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• DOI: 10.34679/thersites.vol2.19
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020050709463386331246
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.