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Cratinus, one of the great lost poets of fifth-century Athenian comedy and a canonical author of the classical world, had a formative influence on the comic genre, including Aristophanes himself. In what is the first major monograph in the best part of a century devoted to this author, Emmanuela Bakola offers a modern, comprehensive overview of Cratinus and his position within the genre of Greek comedy using a methodologically innovative approach. Unlike traditional ways of addressing fragmentary drama, this book does not merely reconstruct plays or texts, but by drawing on a range of hermeneutic frameworks, it adopts a thematic approach which allows her to explore Cratinus' poetics. Major issues which this book addresses include the creation of a poetic persona within a performative tradition of vigorous interpoetic rivalry; comedy's interaction with lyric poetry, iambos, and the literary-critical debates reflected by these genres; the play with the boundaries of the comic genre and the interaction with satyr drama and tragedy, especially Aeschylus; the multiple levels of comic plot-construction and characterization; comedy's reflection on its immediate political, social, and intellectual context; stagecraft and dramaturgy; comedy and ritual. Whilst being firmly based on principles of rigorous textual analysis, philology, and papyrology, by taking a broad and diverse outlook this study offers not just an insight into Cratinus, but a way of opening up and enriching our understanding of fifth-century Athenian comedy in a dynamic evolving environment.
Introduction -- 1. Poetic Persona and Poetic Voice in Cratinus' Comedy -- 2. Cratinus and the Satyr Play -- 3. Cratinus and Tragedy -- 4. Myth, Politics, and Drama: Elements of Plot-Composition in the Comedy of Cratinus -- 5. Production and Imagination -- Appendix 1. The Parabasis Proper of Cratinus' Dionysalexandros (POxy 663, ll. 6-9) -- Appendix 2. The Date of the Accusations against Phidias and his Trial -- Appendix 3. Papyrus fragments of Plutoi -- Appendix 4. Hypothesis to Dionysalexandros (POxy 663).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-353) and index.