Full Description
Douglas M. MacDowell (1931-2010) was a scholar of international renown and the articles included here cover a significant area of classical scholarship, discussing Athenian law, law-making and legal procedure, Old Comedy, comedy and law, politics and lexicography. All of these articles, published between 1959 and 2010, bear the characteristic marks of his scholarship: precision, balanced judgement, brevity and deep learning; they are rational and sober accounts of complicated and controversial issues. Many of these essays are virtually inaccessible as they were originally published in celebratory volumes or article collections which are now out of print or difficult to find outside major libraries. This collection of MacDowell's articles will make these works available to a broad scholarly audience, and make it easier to bring this scholarship to the classroom as part of courses in Classics, ancient history, legal history and theatre studies. The volume includes a biography of MacDowell by Christopher Carey, based on the testimony of his closest colleagues and personal friends, which was presented to the British Academy.
Contents
Preface; Introduction Christopher Carey (Proceedings of the British Academy 172 [2011] 233-48); Part I: Drama and Comedy ""Aristophanes and democracy"" (in Sakellariou, M. B. (ed) Democratie athenienne et culture, 189-97, Athenai 1996); ""The number of speaking actors in old comedy"" (CQ 44 (1994) 325-35); ""Clowning and slapstick in Aristophanes"" (in Redmond, J. (ed) Themes in drama, X: Farce, 1-13, Cambridge 1988); ""The nature of Aristophanes' ""Acharnians"" (G & R 30 (1983) 143-62); ""Aristophanes and Kallistratos"" (CQ 32 (1982) 21-26); Aristophanes, Lysistrata 277-80 (CQ 30 (1981) 294-5); The Frogs' chorus (CR 22 (1972) 3-5); ""Clowning in Aristophanes"" (PCA 65 (1968) 30-31); ""Aristophanes, Peace 16-18"" (CR 15 (1965) 17) ""Aristophanes, Frogs 1407-67"" (CQ 53 (1959) 261-8. (""Aristophanes. ""Frogs"" 1407-67"" in Newiger, H.-J. (ed) Aristophanes und die alte Komödie, 364-75, Darmstadt (Wege der Forschung 265))); ""Aristophanes and Athenian law"" (in Harris, E. M. & L. Rubinstein (eds) Law and drama in ancient Greece, 147-57, London 2010) Part II: Law, institutions and oratory ""The Athenian penalty of epobelia"" (in Harris, E. & G. Thür (eds) Symposion 2007. Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte, (Durham, 2-6 September 2007), 87-94, Wien 2009); ""Hereditary sitesis in fourth-century Athens"" (ZPE 162 (2007) 111-3); ""Mining cases in Athenian law"".../part contents
