Title The comic body in ancient Greek theatre and art, 440-320 BCE / Alexa Piqueux

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 363 pages) : illustrations (black and white) Series Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation. Contents List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index I: Comic Poets -- Index II: Vase-Painters -- Index III: Comedy-Related Archaeological Material -- Index IV: General Summary Using both textual and iconographic sources, this richly illustrated 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. The study also aims to refine knowledge of the various connections between Attic comedy and comic vases from South Italy and Sicily (the so-called 'phlyax vases').0After introducing comic texts and comedy-related vase-paintings in the regional contexts, The Comic Body in Ancient Greek Theatre and Art, 440-320 BCE considers the generic features of the comic body, characterized as it is by a specific ugliness and a constant motion. It also explores how costumes -masks, padding, phallus, clothing, accessories- and gestures contribute to the characters' visual identity in relation with speech : it analyzes the cultural, social, aesthetic, and theatrical conventions by which spectators decipher the body. This study thus leads to a re-examination of the modalities of comic mimesis, in particular when addressing sexual codes in cross-dressing scenes which reveal the artifice of the fictional body. It also sheds light on how comic poets make use of the scenic or imaginary representations of the bodies of those who are targets of political, social, or intellectual satire. There is a particular emphasis on body movements, where the book not only deals with body language and the dramatic function of comic gesture, but also with how words confer a kind of poetic and unreal motion to the body Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed May 31, 2023) Subject Greek drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism Art, Greek. Vase-painting, Greek. Comic, The, in art. Comic, The, in literature. Human body in literature. Human figure in art. Art, Greek Comic, The, in art Comic, The, in literature Greek drama (Comedy) Human body in literature Human figure in art Vase-painting, Greek Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780192660336 0192660330 9780191937767 0191937762

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