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- Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greek Comic Drama
- Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greek Comic Drama
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- A note on the spelling of ancient Greek in English
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction: slaves and slavery in ancient Greek comedy
- Chapter 2 Slaves and politics in early Aristophanic comedy
- Chapter 3 Slavery, drama and the alchemy of identity in Aristophanes
- Chapter 4 Slaves in the fragments of Old Comedy
- Chapter 5 Aristophanes, slaves and history
- Chapter 6 A comedy of errors: the comic slave in Greek art
- Chapter 7 Menander’s slaves: the banality of violence
- Chapter 8 Coping with punishment: the social networking of slaves in Menander
- Chapter 9 Sex slaves in New Comedy
- Chapter 10 ‘Phlyax’ slaves: from vase to stage?
- Chapter 11 Tokens of identity in Menander’sEpitrepontes: slaves, citizens and in-betweens
- References
- Index locorum
- General index
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greek Comic Drama
- Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greek Comic Drama
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- A note on the spelling of ancient Greek in English
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction: slaves and slavery in ancient Greek comedy
- Chapter 2 Slaves and politics in early Aristophanic comedy
- Chapter 3 Slavery, drama and the alchemy of identity in Aristophanes
- Chapter 4 Slaves in the fragments of Old Comedy
- Chapter 5 Aristophanes, slaves and history
- Chapter 6 A comedy of errors: the comic slave in Greek art
- Chapter 7 Menander’s slaves: the banality of violence
- Chapter 8 Coping with punishment: the social networking of slaves in Menander
- Chapter 9 Sex slaves in New Comedy
- Chapter 10 ‘Phlyax’ slaves: from vase to stage?
- Chapter 11 Tokens of identity in Menander’sEpitrepontes: slaves, citizens and in-betweens
- References
- Index locorum
- General index
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- Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greek Comic Drama , pp. xv - xviPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013