Sunoikisis Greek 393: Comedy Seminar Agenda, June 2-4, 2004 Faculty Consultant: Doug Olson (University of Minnesota) Course Director: This work by the Sunoikisis consortium is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. Seminar Participants: • Michael Arnush, Skidmore • Christopher Blackwell, Furman • Keyne Cheshire, Davidson • Hal Haskell, Southwestern • Tom Hawkins, Washington & Lee • Susanne Hofstra, Rhodes College • Leslie Mechem, Skidmore • Jim Morrison, Centre • Doug Olson, University of Minnesota • Katherine Panagakos, Rhodes College • Holly Sypniewski, Millsaps

Sunoikisis Summer Greek Seminar Curriculum Planning for Greek 393: Comedy June 2-4, 2004 Schedule of Assigned Readings with Links to Texts | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | **Please note the files are in pdf format. You will need the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you can get from the Adobe Acrobat Reader Download Site. Also, some of the longer readings are split into two files. Some readings are linked to JSTOR. If you can't access them, try the high or low quality links listed after that entry. For any questions, contact Rebecca Davis, [email protected]** For all the readings below, participants are assigned as primary (marked with 1) or secondary readers (marked with 2). Primary readers are responsible for presenting the assigned reading to the group. Secondary readers should back them up when necessary. Please try to do all the readings, if possible, even if they are not your assignment. Basic Texts (Please bring these if you have them.) · Clouds: Dover (1968) · Wasps: MacDowell (1971) · Birds: Dunbar (1995) Extra Reading Assignment · Douglas Olson asks you to read the following: Fragments Appendix

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o word document Wednesday, June 2 7:30-8:15 AM Continental Breakfast McCombs Residential Center 131 8:30-10:00 AM ACS Tech Center Session: General Introductions, Overview, and Feedback · Introductions · Review of the evolution of Sunoikisis and the development of ICC’s · Discussion of Campus Tutorial · Discussion of the proposed modifications based on feedback from students 10:00-10:30 AM Break ACS Room 201 10:30 AM-12:00 ACS Tech Center PM Session 2: Clouds · Cedric H. Whitman, Aristophanes and the Comic Hero (Cambridge, Mass., 1964) 119–43 1. Michael Arnush 2. Chris Blackwell · Charles Segal, “Aristophanes’ Cloud- Chorus”, Arethusa 2 (1967) 143–61 1. Keyne Cheshire 2. Hal Haskell · Martha Nussbaum, “Aristophanes and Socrates on learning practical wisdom”, YCS 26 (1980) 43–97 1. Jim Morrison 2. Katherine Panagakos · Thomas K. Hubbard, The Mask of Comedy: Aristophanes and the Intertextual Parabasis (Ithaca and London, 1991) 88–112 . 1. Leslie Mechem 2. Kenny Morrell · Christopher Carey, “Old Comedy and the Sophists”, in D. Harvey and J. Wilkins (eds.), The Rivals of Aristophanes (London, 2000) 419–36 1. Tom Hawkins 2. Susanne Hofstra 12:00-1:30 PM Lunch McCombs Dining 1:30-3:00 PM ACS Tech Center Session 3: The Poet and His Rivals · S. Halliwell, "Authorial Collaboration in the Athenian Comic Theatre," GRBS 30 (1989) 515–28. 1. Holly Sypniewski 2. Michael Arnush · Ralph Rosen, “Cratinus’ Pytine and the construction of the comic self”, in D. Harvey and J. Wilkins (eds.), The Rivals of Aristophanes (London, 2000) 23–39. 1. Chris Blackwell 2. Keyne Cheshire · Ian Ruffell, "A total write-off. Aristophanes, Cratinus, and the rhetoric of comic competition," CQ NS 52 (2002) 138–63. 1. Hal Haskell 2. Tom Hawkins · Zachary Biles,"Intertextual Biography in the Rivalry of Cratinus and Aristophanes," AJP 123 (2002) 169–204. 1. Susanne Hofstra 2. Leslie Mechem · Douglas Olson. Fragments. Chapter 2. [Word Document] 3:00-3:30 PM Break ACS Room 201 3:30-5:30 PM ACS Tech Center Session 4: Politics · A.W. Gomme, “Aristophanes and Politics”, CR 52 (1938) 97–109. 1. Leslie Mechem 2. Jim Morrison · Jeffrey Henderson, “The Demos and the Comic Competition”, in J. J. Winkler and F. I. Zeitlin (eds.), Nothing to do with Dionysos ? (Princeton, 1990) 271–313. 1. Kenny Morrell 2. Katherine Panagakos · Alan H. Sommerstein, “The Theatre Audience and the Demos,” in Juan Antonio López Férez (ed.), La comedia Griega y su influencia en la literatura Española (Estudios de filología Griega, Vol. 3: Madrid, 1998) 43–62. 1. Michael Arnush 2. Hal Haskell · Ralph Rosen, “The Gendered Polis in Eupolis’ Cities ”, in G. W. Dobrov (ed.), The City as Comedy (Chapel Hill and London, 1997) 149–76. 1. Keyne Cheshire 2. Tom Hawkins 5:30-7:30 PM Dinner McCombs Residential Center 131

Thursday, June 3 7:00-8:15 AM Continental Breakfast McCombs Residential 131 8:30-10:00 AM ACS Tech Center Session 1: Wasps · Cedric H. Whitman, Aristophanes and the Comic Hero (Cambridge, Mass., 1964) 143–66. 1. Keyne Cheshire 2. Leslie Mechem · David Konstan, “The Politics of Aristophanes’ Wasps”, TAPA 115 (1985) 27–46 (reprinted in Greek Comedy and Ideology 15–28). 1. Susanne Hofstra 2. Hal Haskell · Thomas K. Hubbard, The Mask of Comedy: Aristophanes and the Intertextual Parabasis (Ithaca and London, 1991) 113–39. 1. Jim Morrison 2. Chris Blackwell · M. Bowie, Aristophanes: Myth, Ritual and Comedy (Cambridge, 1993) 78–101. 1. Katherine Panagakos 2. Michael Arnush · S. Douglas Olson, “Politics and Poetry in Aristophanes’ Wasps,” TAPA 126 (1996) 129–50. 1. Holly Sypniewski 2. Kenny Morrell 10:00-10:30 AM Break ACS Room 201 10:30 AM-12:00 ACS Tech Center PM Session 2: Language, “Poetry”, and “the Poet” · Jeffrey Henderson, The Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic Comedy (New York, 1991; originally published in 1975) 1–29, 70-8 o pages 1-29 o pages 70-8 1. Chris Blackwell 2. Holly Sypniewski · Michael Silk, “Aristophanes as a lyric poet”, YCS 26 (1980) 99–151. 1. Kenny Morrell 2. Susanne Hofstra · Ralph Rosen and Donald R. Marks, "Comedies of Transgression in Gangsta Rap and Ancient Classical Poetry," New Literary History 30.4 (1999) 897–928. [The previous link is to the online version. Follow this link for the downloaded html file.] 1. Hal Haskell 2. Jim Morrison · Andreas Willi, The Languages of Aristophanes (Oxford and New York, 2003) 96–156. 1. Tom Hawkins 2. Katherine Panagakos 12:00-1:30 PM Lunch McCombs Dining 1:30-3:00 PM ACS Tech Center Session 3: Birds · William Arrowsmith, “Aristophanes’ Birds : The Fantasy Politics of Eros”, Arion NS 1 (1973) 119–67. 1. Michael Arnush 2. Kenny Morrell · G. M. Sifakis, Parabasis and Animal Choruses (London, 1971) 73–93. 1. Susanne Hofstra 2. Chris Blackwell · Thomas K. Hubbard, “Utopianism and the Sophistic City”, in G. W. Dobrov (ed.), The City as Comedy (Chapel Hill and London, 1997) 23–50. 1. Katherine Panagakos 2. Holly Sypniewski · F. E. Romer, “Good Intentions and the ὁδὸς ἡ ἐς κόρακας in G. W. Dobrov (ed.), The City as Comedy (Chapel Hill and London, 1997) 51–74. 1. Jim Morrison 2. Keyne Cheshire · Jeffrey Henderson, “Mass versus Elite and the Comic Heroism of Peisetairos”, in G. W. Dobrov (ed.), The City as Comedy (Chapel Hill and London, 1997) 135– 48. 1. Leslie Mechem 2. Tom Hawkins

3:00-3:30 PM Break ACS Room 201 3:30-5:30 PM ACS Tech Center Session 4: Wealth · David Konstan and Matthew Dillon, “The Ideology of Aristophanes’ Wealth”, AJP 102 (1981) 371–94. 1. Chris Blackwell 2. Leslie Mechem · Alan H. Sommerstein, “Aristophanes and the Demon Poverty”, CQ NS 34 (1984) 314–33. 1. Hal Haskell 2. Holly Sypniewski · S. Douglas Olson, “Economics and Ideology in Aristophanes’ Plutus,” HSCP 93 (1990) 223–42. 1. Tom Hawkins 2. Michael Arnush · James F. McGlew, Citizens on Stage (Ann Arbor, 2002) 171–91. 1. Katherine Panagakos 2. Susanne Hofstra 5:30-7:30 PM Dinner McCombs Residential 131

Friday, June 4 7:00-8:15 AM Continental Breakfast McCombs Residential 131 8:30-10:00 AM ACS Tech Center Session 1: The History of the Competitions in Athens · Edward Capps, The Introduction of Comedy into the City Dionysia (Chicago, 1903). 1. unassigned 2. unassigned · ——— “Epigraphic Problems in the History of Atttic Comedy”, AJP 28 (1907) 179–99, esp. 186–99 1. Kenny Morrell 2. Keyne Cheshire · ——— “Greek Inscriptions: A New Fragment of the List of Victors at the City Dionysia”, Hesperia 12 (1943) 1–12 1. Holly Sypniewski 2. Jim Morrison · W. A. Dittmer, The Fragments of Athenian Comic Didascaliae found in Rome (Leiden, 1923) 1. unassigned 2. unassigned 10:00-10:30 AM Break ACS Room 201 10:30 AM-12:00 ACS Tech Center PM Session 2: Lecture Topics and Discussion Questions 12:00-1:30 PM Lunch McCombs Dining 1:30-3:00 PM ACS Tech Center Session 3: Lecture Topics and Discussion Questions 3:00-3:30 PM Break ACS Room 201 3:30-5:30 PM ACS Tech Center Session 4: Overview and Final Preparations

• Discussion of the lecture topics and lecturers • Setting the calendar for midterm and final essay examinations

6:00 PM Depart for dinner from Hospitality Suite 206 Turtle Bend Dinner, Drinks and Play reading at the house of Suzanne Bonefas