Through both textual and iconographic sources, this book 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- 1: Comedy and Vase-Painting
- 2: The Construction of the Comic Body: Masks, Phalluses, Padding, and the Comic Ugliness
- 3: Signs of Genre and Sexual Identity Conveyed by Costume
- 4: Social and Moral Characterization through Costume
- 5: The Body in Movement
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Catalogue of the comedy-related vases mentioned in this study