FrC 16.4 Epikrates - Eriphos

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-911065-57-3
Verlag: Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht

Buch, Englisch, Greek, Ancient (to 1453), Band Band 16.4 Heft, 280 Seiten, gebunden, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 568 g

Reihe: Fragmenta Comica

This book is the first comprehensive study ever devoted to the comic poets Epicrates, Epigenes, and Eriphus, figures previously known only through scattered quotations from later sources. The volume studies their fragments for the first time, reconstructs the lost plays and restores these playwrights to the history of Greek comedy. A ground-breaking contribution is the correct dating of Epigenes to New Comedy, the final phase of Greek Comedy, overturning a long-standing error that had shaped scholarship since the nineteenth century. By combining close reading with cultural and historical analysis, the book shows how these poets engaged with everyday life, politics, and social values in post-Classical Athens. Rather than treating fragments as isolated curiosities, it reveals them as parts of coherent dramatic worlds and as evidence for major developments in comic form and content. The volume enhances and deepens our understanding of how the genre evolved after the classical age.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Papachrysostomou, Athina

Weitere Mitwirkende

Most, Glenn W.

Nesselrath, Heinz-Günther

Olson, S. Douglas

Rengakos, Antonios

Sommerstein, Alan H.

Zimmermann, Bernhard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Papachrysostomou, Athina
Athina Papachrysostomou is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Patras, Greece. She specializes in Greek comedy. Beyond Greek comedy, her research interests extend to Athenian democracy, Thucydides and Greek political thought, Greek tragedy and textual criticism.

Nesselrath, Heinz-Günther
Dr. Heinz-Günther Nesselrath ist ordentlicher Professor für Klassische Philologie in Göttingen.

Zimmermann, Bernhard
Dr. Bernhard Zimmermann ist Professor für griechische Literatur an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

Olson, S. Douglas
S. Douglas Olson is Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota, and a Visiting Professor at Bilkent University in Ankara.