Studia Comica

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes befassen sich mit verschiedenen Formen der Dichtung und der Performance in der griechisch-römischen Antike, von der archaischen griechischen Lyrik über die griechisch-römische tragische und komische Dichtung unter Einbeziehung der Rezeption bis in die Gegenwart. Die Schwerpunkte der italienischen und englischen Beiträge reichen von historisch-literarischen, philologischen und metrischen Analysen bis hin zu dramaturgischen Überlegungen oder theoretischen und programmatischen Überlegungen. So bietet Chorodidaskalia ein Beispiel für die Vielfalt der methodischen Ansätze, die es uns erlauben, antike Texte auf anregende und originelle Weise immer wieder neu zu lesen. I contributi raccolti nel presente volume vertono su diverse forme di poesia e performance del mondo greco-romano antico: le ricerche spaziano dalla lirica greca arcaica al teatro tragico e comico, anche latino, non trascurando neppure gli aspetti di ricezione e reinvenzione creativa, fino all'epoca moderna e contemporanea. Le prospettive adottate dai numerosi autori che hanno contribuito al volume sono molteplici e vanno dalle analisi storico-letterarie, filologico-testuali e metriche alle considerazioni drammaturgiche e di messa in scena, o agli inquadramenti teorici e programmatici: in questo modo, Chorodidaskalia propone un esempio della varietà – ed efficacia – degli approcci che consentono di rileggere i testi antichi in modo stimolante e originale. Una modalità di accostamento al mondo antico, attraverso i suoi testi e la loro "attivazione", che per molti aspetti coincide con i percorsi di ricerca di Angela Andrisano, a cui il volume è dedicato.

The Pseudo-Xenophontic Athenaion politeia is a fundamental testimony of the political debate of the second half of the 5th century BC. The author reflects on the concrete functioning of Athenian democracy in an investigation at once political, social, and economic, highlighting the ideological framework that supported it and, consequently, the theoretical resistance of supporters of anti-democratic thought. For these reasons, the work has aroused considerable attention among scholars over time, although the date of the work and its authorship remain uncertain. Through a comparison with contemporary literary works concerned with the political sphere, this this Italian-language research aims to reconstruct the context in which the anonymous author elaborated the politeia. The study combines thematic comparison with linguistic analysis, highlighting the significance of thematic elements and linguistic traits in their communicative and social dimension.

I contributi raccolti in questo volume sono dedicati principalmente alla commedia frammentaria greca di IV-III secolo a.C. e a quella latina, soprattutto della palliata, con alcune considerazioni anche sulla togata e sulla fabula Atellana. L'edizione e l'interpretazione dei frammenti comici pongono dei problemi di carattere metodologico, ma la conservazione parziale dei testi consente, comunque, di approfondire alcuni aspetti drammaturgici e linguistici. La tradizione dei frammenti si deve in parte alle citazioni e alle rielaborazioni di scrittori successivi. La sezione finale del volume è dedicata al mimo greco e latino. The contributions collected in this volume primarily focus on Greek and Roman fragmentary comedy, from 4th - 3rd century B.C. down to palliata (along with togata and fabula Atellana). The edition and interpretation of comic fragments raise some problems in methodology; nevertheless, dramaturgical and linguistic aspects of such texts, which are preserved only partially, can be investigated. The transmission of the fragments partly depends on quotations and adaptations made by later writers. The last section of the volume is devoted to Greek and Roman mime.

In this monograph, the author embarks on a captivating journey to shed fresh light on the togata, a mid-Republican theatrical genre which survives only in fragments. The book seeks to answer pressing questions surrounding the togata's significance in identity construction during the middle Republic from a literary and cultural perspective. Delving deep into the fragmentary textual remains of the togata, the book explores how the Roman elite fashioned their identity. The author challenges the notion of monolithic identity construction, and explores the diverse forms of identity within the togata, offering a new perspective on the subject. This study thus positions the togata as a vital source for discerning the characteristics and beliefs by which the Romans distinguished themselves and their culture from others. By examining how Romans perceived themselves, their ideas about different social groups, and their literary and cultural ties to earlier traditions, this book aims to transform our understanding of the togata's role in Roman drama.

Das Antiatticista genannte attische Lexikon aus dem 2. Jahrhundert n. Chr. behandelt vor allem »nicht-kanonische« Autoren und Alltagsausdrücke. Aber es enthält auch eine Vielzahl von Zitaten »kanonischer« Autoren wie etwa des Aristophanes. Dieses italienischsprachige Buch bietet die erste umfassende Analyse der Zitate des Aristophanes im Antiatticista. Es bietet eine gründliche Untersuchung dieser Zitate im Hinblick auf die Überlieferungsgeschichte und im Vergleich mit anderen Werken der antiken gelehrten Literatur sowie durch linguistische Untersuchungen des nachklassischen Griechisch. Dadurch vertieft es das Wissen über die aristophanischen Komödien (insbesondere ihre Sprache und ihre Überlieferung) und trägt zu einem besseren Verständnis dieses Lexikons bei.

Among the main questions relating to the interpretation of popular religiosity phenomena there are those on the usefulness of historical sources (archaeological and documentary) for the purposes of understanding the mythical-ritual present, on the presumed chronological continuity of practices and beliefs and on the legitimacy and effectiveness of historical-comparative method. These questions deserve to be taken up again on the basis of renewed investigations in the face of the now-occurring dissolution of what has been defined as "peasant civilization" and the renewed interest in intangible heritage both by communities in search of identity matrices and cultural memories and by part of the so-called "cultural market". This volume presents important works by Ignazio Buttitta.

The contributions collected in this volume deal with the relation between Comedy and Music, in the Greek sense of "art of the Muses". The volume offers an investigation on the metres and rhythms of poetic texts, on dance, on sociological aspects, on the psychagogical function of music itself, on the perceptions and theories that are transmitted to us from ancient sources. In the various essays a central role is played by Aristophanes, playwright and an expert music critic, animated by a negative prejudice towards the 'New Music', the poetic-musical revolution that influenced the dithyramb and the nomos, and then also the lyric sections of the tragedy.

Epicharmus (ca. 530–440 BCE) is the first known Greek comic poet, but his influence in antiquity was in no way limited to dramatic literature. As the result of the interest in moral, linguistic, and philosophical subjects displayed in Epicharmus' comedies, after his death Epicharmus was believed to have had a real competence in those fields, and a number of moral, philosophical, and scientific treatises in verse, known as the pseudo-Epicharmean writings, were thus composed so as to collect and circulate the doctrines which came to be identified as Epicharmus'. Beside discussing the evidence for serious subjects in Epicharmus' comedies, this volume provides an analytic study of the fragments from the pseudo-Epicharmean writings and makes a case for considering the so-called fragments ex Alcimo as genuine examples of philosophical parody from Epicharmus' authentic comedies. All these materials are presented with a revised text and a word-by-word philological and exegetical commentary.

Die italienischsprachige Studie analysiert die privaten Streithandlungen in literarischen lateinischen Texten. Durch die Analyse der Repräsentationen des Streites sowie der Reaktionen der Beteiligten und Betroffenen werden die linguistischen Eigenheiten des Streitgeschehens dargelegt. Auf diese Weise beleuchtet die Autorin den zugrundeliegenden, zeitgenössischen Kulturcode und umreißt die Verhaltensweisen im Streit. Sie folgt dabei den Impoliteness Theorien Jonathan Culpepers. Daher kommt der Untersuchung interner Hinweise auf die Wahrnehmung der jeweiligen Streitsituation eine besondere Bedeutung zu.