How To Use The Ancient Comedy Guide

This page contains tips on searching, general resources, useful databases.

Other pages present a selection of the books in CBB libraries on various aspects of ancient comedy; use these as a starter bibliography to browse through.

Comedy in Ancient Greece and Rome

Staging Classical Comedy

Some Subjects to Search:

• Greek drama (Comedy) History and criticism
• Greek drama (Comedy) Translations into English
  
• Aristophanes Criticism and interpretation
• Theater Greece History To 500
• Satire, Greek History and criticism
• Latin Drama (Comedy) - History and Criticism
• Classical Drama (Comedy) - History and Criticism
• Plautus - Criticism and Interpretation
  
• Latin Verse Satire - History and Criticism
• Latin Fiction - History and Criticism
• Latin Wit and Humer - History and Criticism
• Apuleius - Metamorphoses

Remember that in every record there are Subject or Topic lines hot-linked to other book titles on the same topic.

For articles on aspects of ancient comic literature and theatre:

• L'Année philologique Note that this database is not full-text.

• JSTOR
  
• Project Muse

And for articles on modern productions of ancient comedy:

• MLA International Bibliography
  
• Academic Search Complete
  
• ProQuest Newspapers

Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre   PA3201 .C26 2007

   especially chh.6 Politics and Aristophanes: watchword 'Caution!' and 7 Comedy and society from Menander to Terence

Brill's Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy  PA3161 .B75 2010

Brill's New Pauly, entries on:

• Comedy
  
• Aristophanes  (scroll down to [3])
  
• Menander
  
• Plautus
  
• Terence
  
• Satire
  
• Horace  (scroll down to [7])
  
• Juvenal
  
• Petronius  (scroll down to [5])
  
• Apuleius  (scroll way down to [III])