Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greek Comic Drama
eBook - PDF

Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greek Comic Drama

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greek Comic Drama

About this book

How did audiences of ancient Greek comedy react to the spectacle of masters and slaves? If they were expected to laugh at a slave threatened with a beating by his master at one moment but laugh with him when they bantered familiarly at the next, what does this tell us about ancient Greek slavery? This volume presents ten essays by leading specialists in ancient Greek literature, culture and history, exploring the changing roles and representations of slaves in comic drama from Aristophanes at the height of the Athenian Empire to the New Comedy of Menander and the Hellenistic World. The contributors focus variously on individual comic dramas or on particular historical periods, analysing a wide range of textual, material-culture and comparative data for the practices of slavery and their representation on the ancient Greek comic stage.

Frequently asked questions

Yes, you can cancel anytime from the Subscription tab in your account settings on the Perlego website. Your subscription will stay active until the end of your current billing period. Learn how to cancel your subscription.
At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.
Perlego offers two plans: Essential and Complete
  • Essential is ideal for learners and professionals who enjoy exploring a wide range of subjects. Access the Essential Library with 800,000+ trusted titles and best-sellers across business, personal growth, and the humanities. Includes unlimited reading time and Standard Read Aloud voice.
  • Complete: Perfect for advanced learners and researchers needing full, unrestricted access. Unlock 1.4M+ books across hundreds of subjects, including academic and specialized titles. The Complete Plan also includes advanced features like Premium Read Aloud and Research Assistant.
Both plans are available with monthly, semester, or annual billing cycles.
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Yes! You can use the Perlego app on both iOS or Android devices to read anytime, anywhere — even offline. Perfect for commutes or when you’re on the go.
Please note we cannot support devices running on iOS 13 and Android 7 or earlier. Learn more about using the app.
Yes, you can access Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greek Comic Drama by Ben Akrigg,Rob Tordoff in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Ancient History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781107008557
eBook ISBN
9781139603249
Topic
History
Subtopic
Ancient History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Figures
  4. Notes on contributors
  5. Preface
  6. A note on the spelling of ancient Greek in English
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Chapter 1 Introduction: slaves and slavery in ancient Greek comedy
  9. Chapter 2 Slaves and politics in early Aristophanic comedy
  10. Chapter 3 Slavery, drama and the alchemy of identity in Aristophanes
  11. Chapter 4 Slaves in the fragments of Old Comedy
  12. Chapter 5 Aristophanes, slaves and history
  13. Chapter 6 A comedy of errors: the comic slave in Greek art
  14. Chapter 7 Menander’s slaves: the banality of violence
  15. Chapter 8 Coping with punishment: the social networking of slaves in Menander
  16. Chapter 9 Sex slaves in New Comedy
  17. Chapter 10 ‘Phlyax’ slaves: from vase to stage?
  18. Chapter 11 Tokens of identity in Menander’s Epitrepontes: slaves, citizens and in-betweens
  19. References
  20. Index locorum
  21. General index