Cutting Comedies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23479142 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian C Storey (0000-0002-0952-0673, Trent University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Pages | 146-167 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Greek and Roman Drama (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | J.B. Metzler (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-476-02908-9_9 |
| OpenAlex | W4248707205 |
| ISBN | 9783476029089 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 9 |
In this paper I want to consider one controversial aspect of the ancient conditions of dramatic production: how many comedies were produced at the Athenian dramatic festivals in the late fifth century. I wonder how often we teachers of courses in ancient drama have repeated as gospel the conclusion of, for example, Pickard-Cambridge (p.83) that during the Peloponnesian War the number of competitors was reduced from five to three: The normal number of comic poets competing at both the Dionysia and the Lenaia during the Classical period seems to have been five, except that, during part of the Peloponnesian War, it was reduced to three, probably owing to financial depression in Athens.
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Classical period · Comics · Drama · Gospel · Literature · Period (music) · Wonder · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · History · Philosophy
Laughter
Fourth-century comedy before Menander
Performing gender in Greek Old and New Comedy
Epicharmus and early Sicilian comedy
The rivals of Aristophanes and Menander
Character types
Comedy and Athenian festival culture
Snapshots of Aristophanes and Menander
Comedy and Athenian law
Attic comedy in the rhetorical and moralising traditions
The politics of Greek comedy
Dramatic technique and Athenian comedy
Contexts of reception in antiquity
The reception of Greek comedy in Rome
The Greek ‘comic hero’
Theiconography of comedy
Divinity and religious practice
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |