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The birth of comedy : texts, documents, and art from Athenian comic competitions, 486-280
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The birth of comedy : texts, documents, and art from Athenian comic competitions, 486-280

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Proto-comedy : literary and visual evidence for the precursors of comedy in 6th century Greece
Epicharmus of Sicily
Festivals, competitions, victory-lists
The first and second generations (except Cratinus)
Cratinus
Eupolis
Aristophanes
Phrynichus and Platon
Other authors ca. 420-390 BCE
Theater, audience, actors, chorus, and costume of old and middle comedy : texts, statuettes, and paintings (also from outside Athens)
Scenes from old or middle comedy on 4th-century southern Italian vases
Anaxandrides, Eubulus, Ephippus
Antiphanes
Timocles and nicostratus
Alexis
Other authors of middle comedy
The masks of new comedy in texts and images; actors of new comedy; acting techniques; other developments in staging
Philemon
Menander
Diphilus of Sinope
Other new comedy authors.

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The birth of comedy : texts, documents, and art from Athenian comic competitions, 486-280. ISBN 9780801894480. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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