This book shows how both verbal and visual allusion position the plays of New Comedy within the context of contemporary polis culture.

The comic playwright Menander was one of the most popular writers throughout antiquity. This book reconstructs his life and the legacy of his work until the end

The first literary account of a style of comic drama which was to become the root of all subsequent Western comedy. Places the social comedy of Menander, Plautu

This book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.

In this updated and extended edition of The Greek Sense of Theatre, scholar and practitioner J.Michael Walton revises and expands his visual approach to the the