Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-305) and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction -- The language of Athenian women -- The naming of women in Greek and Roman comedy -- The anatomy of euphemism in Aristophanic comedy -- Talking about laughter in Aristophanes -- Old comedians on old comedy -- Slave and citizen in Aristophanic comedy -- Monsters, ogres, and demons in old comedy -- The silence of Strepsiades and the agon of the first Clouds -- Response to Slater, 'Bringing up father: paideia and ephebeia in the Wasps' -- An alternative democracy and an alternative to democracy in Aristophanic comedy -- Lysistrata the warrior -- Nudity, obscenity, and power: modes of female assertiveness in Aristophanes -- Kleophon and the restaging of Frogs -- Platonios Diff. Com. 29-31 and 46-52 Koster: Aristophanes' Aiolosikon, Kratinos' Odysses, and middle comedy.
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