Die attische Mittlere Komödie

Nesselrath, Heinz-Günther

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“…1268-82), but this did not prevent him from showing the drinking-party on stage in other plays. Similarly in Greek comedy 9) On comic banquet narratives see Fraenkel 1912, 13-33;Handley 1965, 299 f.;Webster 1970b, 65 f.;Nesselrath 1990, 262 and n. 56; Arnott 1996, 54, 185. there is a large number of fragments (over forty in 4th-century poets, plus some precedents in Old Comedy), which clearly suggest that drinking is taking place on stage. They include passages in which a character asks for a drink or orders someone to pour wine into his cup (Pherekrates frr.…”

Section: The Evidence From Greek Comic Fragments and Pictorial Represmentioning

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The Drinking Theatre: Staged Symposia in Greek Comedy

Konstantakos¹

2005

mnemosyne

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 IOANNIS M. KONSTANTAKOS A Staged symposia, like those found in some comedies of Plautus (As., Mos., Per., St.), were presented also in Greek comedy: this is indicated by a large number of fragments which present characters drinking and performing sympotic rituals on stage. Sympotic scenes formed a favourite comic spectacle in the 4th century and apparently occurred already in Old Comedy (e.g. Pherekrates' Korianno). Plautus' staged banquets may well have been inspired by Greek scenes of this sort. The lunch-party of the women at the beginning of Menander's Synaristosai can be seen as a variation of the traditional comic banquet-scene; so also certain scenes of Aristophanes (the slaves' drinking-scene in Eq. 85 ff.; the imaginary symposium in V. 1208-48). The comic symposia must have been acted either on the ekkyklema or simply 'on stage', i.e. on the regular performance area for the actors, in front of the scenic façade; by convention, events which would normally take place indoors could be set outside the house in the theatre. An appendix discusses the number of actors in 4th-century comedy: a fourth speaking performer was most probably available for the largest part of the 4th century.© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2005 Mnemosyne, Vol. LVIII, Fasc. 2 Also available online -www.brill.nl 1) I am grateful to Professor Richard Hunter for his valuable comments on an earlier version of this essay.

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Section: The Evidence From Greek Comic Fragments and Pictorial Represmentioning

confidence: 99%