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Acknowledgments VII
List of Abbreviations IX
List of Illustrations IX
List of Contributors XIII
Part 1 Contexts
1 Comedy and Her Critics Gregory W. Dobrov 3
2 Comedy, Politics, and Society S. Douglas Olson 35
3 The Material Evidence J. Richard Green 71
4 The Production and Performance of Comedy in Antiquity Eric Csapo 103
5 Myth and Ritual in Comedy Angus M. Bowie 143
Part 2 History
6 Origins and Fifth-Century Comedy Ian C. Storey 179
7 Aristophanes Ralph M. Rosen 227
8 Middle Comedy W. Geoffrey Arnott 279
9 New Comedy Stanley Ireland 333
Part 3 Elements
10 The History of the Text of Aristophanes Alan H. Sommerstein 399
11 Comic Fragments: Transmission and Textual Criticism Heinz-Günther Nesselrath 423
12 Structure and Meter Bernhard Zimmermann 455
13 The Language of Old Comedy Andreas Willi 471
Bibliography 511
Subject Index 559
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reviewed Brill's Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy on May 22, 2014
Brill's Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy
Behold yon mountain's hoary height
Made higher with new mounds of snow:
Again behold the winter's weight
Oppress the labouring woods below...
- Horace, Ode I, 9: Dryden translation.
Old age is No Fun!
So seems to say the aging Roman master Horace in this excerpt. And I couldn't agree more!
As well as being a time of myriad aches and pains and illnesses, it is a time when efforts at calm reflection are upset by "undisciplined squadrons of emotion" (Eliot)
For it is a time when your "Heart rises to the surface" (Elizabeth Hay).
Yikes! Is there a CURE for these Oldtimer's Blues?
Yes! says Horace: just AC-CENT-U-ATE the Positive... for there ARE good times to be had in the Wintertime of Life!
Listen to the happy turn the wintry Ode 9 takes next:
With well-heaped logs dissolve the cold
And feed the genial hearth with fires,
Produce the wine that makes us bold,
And sprightly wit and love inspires.
And throughout these mature poems, Horace stresses the Golden Mean - neither getting out of hand with levity or getting wrapped up in your sorrows.
This is good advice indeed for me and all my friends "of a certain age."
Old age is not for sissies - and neither is it a time to "measure our life in coffee spoons."
Don't dwell on what you've lost -
Be Happy for what you HAVE -
Right HERE & NOW.
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