Nonsense and Meaning in Ancient Greek Comedy by Stephen E. Kidd

2015 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-144
Author(s):  
Ian Ruffell
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek Comedy

John Wilkins: The Boastful Chef. The Discourse of Food in Ancient Greek Comedy

Gnomon ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 76 (7) ◽  
pp. 577-581
Author(s):  
Ferruccio Conti Bizzarro
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek Comedy ◽  
John Wilkins

‘Genitalia of the Sea’: Seafood and Sexuality in Greek Comedy

Mnemosyne ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 554-576
Author(s):  
Carl A. Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Female Genitalia ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Greek Comedy ◽  
Lexical Resource ◽  
Sex And Sexuality ◽  
Fresh Insight

Fish play a sizable role in the remains of ancient Greek comedy. Although scholars have proposed various cultural, economic, and generic explanations for comedy’s interest in sea creatures, they have not adequately considered the importance of seafood’s relationship to obscenity and sexuality. Greek comic poets correlate a range of sea creatures with sex and sexuality in imaginative and humorous ways, making obscene jokes about courtesans and aphrodisiacs, as well as creating double entendres for male and female genitalia. This study provides a lexical resource for Greek comedy’s numerous seafood fragments, uncovering many neglected ancient sexual jokes and offering fresh insight on comedy’s interest in sea creatures.

The Boastful Chef: The Discourse of Food in Ancient Greek Comedy (review)

2003 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-186
Author(s):  
Sander M. Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek Comedy

Stephen E. Kidd: Nonsense and Meaning in Ancient Greek Comedy.

Gnomon ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-199
Author(s):  
Enrico Medda
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek Comedy

Performing Ancient Drama in Mask: the Case of Greek New Comedy

2004 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-264
Author(s):  
Chris Vervain
Keyword(s):  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek Comedy ◽  
Ancient Drama ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
New Comedy

Chris Vervain is a mask maker who has for a number of years trained and directed in performing masked drama. On the basis of research she has undertaken, using her own masks, on how to perform the ancient Greek plays, in this article she questions some of the modern orthodoxies of masked theatre, drawing specifically on her experience with Menander's New Comedy. With David Wiles, she contributed ‘The Masks of Greek Tragedy as Point of Departure for Modern Performance’ to NTQ 67 (August 2001) and, with Richard Williams, ‘Masks for Menander: Imaging and Imagining Greek Comedy’ to Digital Creativity, X, No. 3 (1999). Some of her masks can be seen at www.chrisvervain.btinternet.com. She is currently working towards a doctorate on masks in Greek tragedy at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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