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The Comic Body in Ancient Greek Theatre and Art, 440-320 BCE (Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation)

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Using both textual and iconographic sources, The Comic Body in Ancient Greek Theatre and Art, 440-320 BCE examines the representations of the body in Greek Old and Middle Comedy, how it was staged, perceived, and imagined, particularly in Athens, Magna Graecia, and Sicily. The aim of this study is also to refine knowledge of the relationship between Attic comedy and South-Italian comic vases (the so-called 'phlyax vases'). The first chapter in the book introduces comic texts and comedy-related vase-paintings in the regional contexts, analysing their various connections. The second chapter describes the evolution of the basic elements of the costume which constitute the generic comic body (masks, padding, and phallus). It also examines the characteristic traits of comic ugliness as well as its meaning. The third and fourth chapters consider the characterisation through costume in relation to verbal indications, analysing the cultural, social, aesthetic, or strictly theatrical codes by which the spectators decipher the staged body. The study of the sexual codes in cross-dressing scenes, which reveal the artifice of the fictional body, leads to re-examining the modalities of comic mimesis. These chapters also shed light upon the way in which comic poets make use of the scenic or imaginary representation of the bodies of those who are targets of political, social, or intellectual satire. Finally the fifth chapter focuses on the body in movement. It deals with comic body language, the dramatic function of comic gesture and how words confer a kind of poetic and unreal motion to the body.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0192845543
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0192845542
  3. Publisher
    Oxford University Press
  4. Publication date
    October 31, 2022
  5. Part of series
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    9.86 x 0.97 x 7.7 inches
  8. Print length
    384 pages
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"A particular strength of this book is the methodological care taken in working between text and images, respecting the different ways they communicate...this is not only a book for readers interested in comedy per se but for anybody investigating gender and status in Athens more generally." -- Greece & Rome

"In this beautifully produced and generously accessible volume, Piqueux traces the presence of the body on the stages of Old and Middle Comedy as it is reflected in both text and image...Piqueux's work develops a thorny collection of evidence into a legible archive, and she is largely persuasive in her readings of it; her mastery of the iconographic record and her skill as an interpreter of vase imagery are on display throughout the book." -- Matthew C. Farmer, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

About the Author

Alexa Piqueux, Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Literature, Université Paris Nanterre

Alexa Piqueux is an Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at Université Paris Nanterre and a Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Her research revolves mainly around ancient Greek theatre, comic poetry, theatre-related iconography, interrelations between art and text, and the cultural history of Magna Graecia.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press (October 31, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0192845543
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0192845542
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.23 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.86 x 0.97 x 7.7 inches

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