The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

In covering a topic such as Greek comedy there are various aspects which have to be considered: literary, theatrical, contemporary contexts, historical contexts and reception among them. Many years ago, I spent an anxious summer waiting for my local library to deliver an inter-library loan copy of Cornford’s The Origins of Attic Comedy, so that I could write a seminar paper for the start of the new term: it arrived eventually, late but just about in time, although I do seem to remember sitting on a bus consulting it and drafting my paper. The religious origins of Greek (specifically...