David Harvey - The Rivals of Aristophanes

Frontispiece. Four terracottas of comic actors Courtesy British Museum.

Mon. A(ttic) T(erracotta) 9b (p. 46); BM 1865.7-20.37. Old nurse in a himation (mantle), holding a baby on her arm. The child is swaddled, and wears a pointed cap. Early 4th cent.; from Athens (?); height 7.5 cm.

Mon. AT 26b (p. 69); BM 1842.7-28.752. Herakles, cross-legged, with club, lionskin, bow and quiver. He wears a dotted chiton (tunic) and looped phallos; same mask as A. Early 4th cent.; from Melos; height 9 cm. From a mythological burlesque? (see Bowie in this volume, pp. 319-24).

Mon. AT 10c (p. 47); BM 1907.5-18.7. Woman hiding her face with her himation. Early 4th cent.; provenance unknown; height 9.5 cm.

Mon. AT 6b (p. 43); BM 1880.11-13.3. Traveller wearing cloak andpilos (pointed felt cap), carrying flask and basket. Looped phallos; same mask as B. He has a slightly aggressive attitude (Green & Handley 60). Early 4th cent. from Tanagra (?); height 9 cm.

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CONTENTS

Jonathan Swift

John Wilkins

Kenneth Dover St Andrews

I. MANUSCRIPTS

W. Geoffrey Arnott University of Leeds

II. POETS

Wolfgang Luppe Martin-Luther-Universitat, Halle

Ralph M. Rosen University of Pennsylvania

James Davidson University of Warwick

S. Douglas Olson University of Minnesota

Dwora Gilula Hebrew University, Jerusalem

David Harvey University of Exeter

Jeffrey Henderson Boston University

David Braund University of Exeter

Giorgos Kavvadias Third Ephorate of Classical Antiquities, Athens

Wolfgang Luppe and Ian C. Storey

Ian C. Storey Trent University, Ontario

Themistocles exile, hero-cult and delayed rehabilitation Pericles and the origins of the Peloponnesian War Thomas Braun Merton College, Oxford

III. OLD COMEDY TO MIDDLE COMEDY

Heinz-Gunther Nesselrath University of Berne

Keith Sidwell University College, Cork

IV. LITERARY THEMES

N.J. Lowe Royal Holloway College, University of London

Bernhard Zimmermann Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat, Freiburg with a response by David Harvey

Stephen Colvin Yale University

Michael Silk Kings College, London

V. SOCIAL THEMES

Angus Bowie Queens College, Oxford

John Wilkins University of Exeter with an aegological note by Oliver Rackham, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Nick Fisher University of Wales Cardiff

Andrew Dalby St Couton, France

Edith Hall Somerville College, Oxford

Christopher Carey Royal Holloway College, University of London

Alan H. Sommerstein University of Nottingham

Paola Ceccarelli University of lAquila, Abruzzi

Ian Ruffell Christ Church, Oxford

Kenneth Dover, W.G. Arnott, N.J. Lowe, David Harvey

Ian C. Storey