Satyric Play: The Evolution of Greek Comedy and Satyr Drama

217 Pages·2014·14.06 MB·English

by  Carl Shaw

Satyric Play

Satyric Play
The Evolution of Greek Comedy and
Satyr Drama
Carl a. Shaw
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Shaw, Carl A.
Satyric play : the evolution of Greek comedy and Satyr drama / Carl A. Shaw.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–0–19–995094–2
1. Greek drama (Satyr play)—History and criticism. 2. Greek drama
(Comedy)—History and criticism. I. Title.
PA3160.S53 2014
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CONTENTS
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Notes to the Reader xv
List of Abbreviations xvii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Comedy and Satyr Drama in Plato and Aristotle 13
Chapter 2: Early Kômos Songs: Satyric, Pre-Comic, and
Dithyrambic Performance 26
Chapter 3: Sicilian Comedy and the Attic Satyr Play 56
Chapter 4: Old Comedy, Classical Satyr Drama, and Euripides’
Alcestis 78
Chapter 5: Middle Comedy and the “Satyric” Style 106
Chapter 6: Post-Classical Satyr Play and Old Comedy 123
Conclusion 149
Bibliography 155
Index Locorum 179
General Index 183

LIST OF FIGURES
0.1 Pronomos Vase, Attic red-figure krater, ca. 410, Pronomos
Painter. Naples, Museo Nazionale 81673. Photo Credit: Art
Resource, NY. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy. 9
0.1a Pronomos Vase, Attic red-figure krater, ca. 410, Pronomos
Painter. Naples Museo Nazionale 81673. Drawing by E. R.
Malyon. 10
0.2 Aulos player with satyr performer, Attic red-figure dinos,
420–400. Athens, National Archaeological Museum 13027. ©
Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Culture
and Sports. 11
0.3 Three satyr choreuts, Apulian bell krater, 410–380, attributed
to the Tarporley Painter. Nicholson Museum, Sydney, Australia,
NM 47.05. Photo courtesy of the Nicholson Museum. 12
2.1 Attic red-figure amphora fragment, ca. 490–470, Eucharides
Painter. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu,
California. 86. AE.190.6. Terracotta. 28
2.2 Satyrs robbing the sleeping Heracles, Attic red-figure volute
krater, ca. 510. Padula, Museo Archaeologico Provinciale della
Lucania Occidentale. 28
2.3 Dionysus and satyr in a wheeled ship cart, Attic black-figure
skyphos, ca. 530–500, Theseus Painter. Athens National
Archaeological Museum Acr 1281a. © Hellenic Ministry of
Education and Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports. 29
2.4 Corinthian black-figure skyphos (Side B), ca. 585–570, Painter
from Samos. Paris, Louvre Inv. No. CA3004. Photo: Hervé
Lewandowski. © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY. 34
2.5 Corinthian-style Boeotian black-figure alabastron, ca. 575–550.
Göttingen, Archäologisches Institut der Universität HU
533g. 35