Table Of ContentFragmentation in Ancient Greek Drama
Trends in Classics –
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Volume 84
Fragmentation
in Ancient Greek
Drama
Edited by
Anna Lamari, Franco Montanari
and Anna Novokhatko
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Foreword
This volume has its origin in the 12th Trends in Classics International Conference
that was held in Thessaloniki in May 2018. It is a pleasure to record here our
thanks for the help received from so many quarters; the staff of the Department
of Philology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (especially Stavros Fran-
goulidis and Martin Vöhler), the Aristotle University Research Committee (for
generous financial support), the Università degli Studi di Genova, the “A und A
Kulturstiftung” and the Stiftung “Humanismus Heute”, the Heidelberger Akade-
mie der Wissenschaften, as well as the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.
Special thanks should go to Bernhard Zimmermann, whose herculean project
on comic fragments has opened new paths in a vastly unexplored field. The Kom-
Frag project (Kommentierung der Fragmente der griechischen Komödie, Albert-
Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), under his supervision, is an international re-
search program on an unprecedented scale, providing new insights into the study
of fragmentary Greek comedy. It is from engagement with this project that the
idea of a conference on the concept of fragmentation originally sprung up. This
was further enhanced by the incorporation of the study of tragic fragments, as
well as various other subfields.
None of the Trends in Classics conferences, this one included, would have
ever taken place without Antonios Rengakos, the driving force behind this nota-
ble 14-year-series of uninterrupted, annual academic gatherings. It is thanks to
his ingenuity, efficiency and problem-solving talent that this and every Trends in
Classics conference has been made possible.
Anna Lamari, Franco Montanari, Anna Novokhatko
Thessaloniki – Genova – Freiburg, May 2020
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110621693-202
Contents
Foreword V
List of Figures XI
List of Tables XIII
Anna A. Lamari, Franco Montanari and Anna Novokhatko
οὐ σῴζεται or σῴζονται: Preliminary Remarks on the Study of Dramatic
Fragments Today 3
Part I: Quotation, Transmission, and Reconstruction of
Fragments
Bernhard Zimmermann
On the Hermeneutics of the Fragment 21
Jeffrey Henderson
Old Comic Citation of Tragedy as Such 39
Ralph Μ. Rosen
On Literary Fragmentation and Quotation in Aristophanes: Some Theoretical
Considerations 49
Anna A. Lamari
On Types of Fragments 61
Matthew Wright
How Long Did the Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy Survive? 83
Francesco Paolo Bianchi
What we Do (Not) Know About Lost Comedies: Fragments and Testimonia 105
S. Douglas Olson
The Fragments of Aristophanes’ Gerytades: Methodological
Considerations 129
Oliver Taplin
Fragments of Aeschylus and the Number of Actors 145
VIII Contents
Part II: Fragmented Tragedy
Alan H. Sommerstein
Revisiting the Danaid Trilogy 155
Patrick J. Finglass
Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta Volume II: Old Texts, New
Opportunities 165
Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou
παῖς μάργος 183
Nikos Manousakis
Aeschylus’ Actaeon: A Playboy on the Greek Tragic Stage? 201
Martin J. Cropp
Euripides or Critias, or Neither? Reflections on an Unresolved Question 235
Ioanna Karamanou
Fragmented Intergeneric Discourses: Epinician Echoes in Euripides’
Alexandros 257
Massimo Giuseppetti
Wink or Twitch? Euripides’ Autolycus (fr. 282) and the Ideologies of
Fragmentation 275
Efstathia Papadodima
Barbarism and Fragmentation in Fifth-Century Tragedy: Barbarians in the
Fragments and “Fragmented” Barbarians 299
Part III: Fragmented Comedy
Michele Napolitano
Epicharmus, Odysseus Automolos: Some Marginal Remarks on frr. 97 and 98
and K–A 321
Anna Novokhatko
δηλαδὴ τρίπους: On Epicharmus fr. 147 K–A 337
Serena Perrone
Crates and the Polis: Reframing the Case 353
Contents IX
Andreas Bagordo
On Some Short (and Dubious) Fragments of Aristophanes 369
Ioannis M. Konstantakos
Heracles’ Adventures at the Inn, or How Fragments and Plays Converse 379
Massimiliano Ornaghi
Ethnic Stereotypes and Ethnic Mockery in Ancient Greek Comedy 407
Part IV: The Reception of Tragic Fragments
Piero Totaro
Aeschylean Fragments in the Herculaneum Papyri: More Questions than
Answers. Prometheus Unbound in Philodemus’ On Piety 437
Anton Bierl
Paratragic Fragmentation and Patchwork-Citation as Comic Aesthetics:
The Potpourri Use of Euripides’ Helen and Andromeda in Aristophanes’
Thesmophoriazusae and Their Symbolic Meaning 453
Christian Orth
Fragmentary Comedy and the Evidence of Vase-Painting: Euripidean Parody in
Aristophanes’ Anagyros 481
Poulheria Kyriakou
A Cause for Fragmentation: Tragic Fragments in Plato’s Republic 501
Richard Hunter
Dio Chrysostom and the Citation of Tragedy 527
Patrick O’ Sullivan
From the Great Banquets of Aeschylus: Gorgias, Aristophanes and Xenakis’
Oresteia 545
Part V: The Reception of Comic Fragments
Eric Csapo
How Cratinus fr. 372 Made Theatre History 573
