Marshall and Hawkins have assembled a diverse and stimulating collection of essays, which will prove to be a valuable resource for future work in this area.

Mouseion

Contributors treat diverse authors, texts, and evidence, yet each chapter remains firmly rooted in a measured consideration of the received genre. Readers with an interest in Athenian comedy, Old or New, or in a cautious yet productive approach to comic reception, will discover much of value in this well-executed volume.

Classical World

This volume is an important contribution to the field that does much to dispel some of the agnoia with which it begins. A volume such as this one cannot but leave one wanting more, in the most positive sense ... the contributions contained herein will no doubt play a vital role in shaping the direction to come.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review

How did Greeks and Romans of the Roman Empire read, write about, and use the Athenian comedies of the 4th and 5th centuries BCE? The papers in this collection give a range of thought-provoking answers to this question. In the introductory essay, Marshall (Univ. of British Columbia) and Hawkins (Ohio State) trace the development of Greek comedy from the 5th century BCE through the first centuries CE and discuss the most central topics in scholarship on the reception of Greek comedy in the Roman Empire. This provides an excellent framework from which to understand the remaining 12 essays, which discuss various authors (e.g., Juvenal, Aelian, Alciphron, Plutarch), genres (oratory, satire, epistles), and topics (adultery as a plot device, comic actors, and performance, among others) … Readers thus gain an understanding of not only the importance of the topic itself but also the productive methods available for studying it. A fine contribution to the scholarship on an important but often-neglected subject. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

CHOICE

This volume offers a stimulating exploration of aspects of Athenian comedy in the Roman Empire, and one can only second the hope of the editors that more research in this field will follow.

Classics Ireland

The essays herein cover a broad range of authors and time periods and readers from many interests are likely to find something engaging in these essays.

The Classical Journal