Women and humor in classical Greece

Laurie O'Higgins

Women and Humor in Classical Greece examines the role of women as producers of joking speech, especially within cults of Demeter. This speech, sometimes known as aischrologia, had considerable weight and vitality within its cultic context. It also shaped literary traditions, notably iambic and Attic old comedy that has traditionally been regarded as entirely male. The misogyny for which ancient iambic is infamous derives in part from an oral world in which women's derisive joking voices reverberated. O'Higgins considers this speech from its mythical origins in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, through the reactive iambic tradition and into old comedy. She also examines the poems of Sappho and Corinna as literary jokers, responding in part to their own experience of joking women. The book concludes with an appraisal of the three great 'women's' plays of Aristophanes: Lysistrata, Thesmophoriasouzae, and Ecclesiazousae.

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[目次]

  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Cultic obscenity in Greece, especially Attica
  • 2. Iambe and the Hymn to Demeter
  • 3. Iambic's relationship with the female
  • 4. Women's iambic voices
  • 5. Comedy and women
  • 6. Women at centre stage
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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書名 Women and humor in classical Greece
著作者等 O'Higgins, Laurie
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 2003
ページ数 x, 262 p., [5] p. of plates
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 052182253X
NCID BA6458748X
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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