Symposium And Komos in Aristophanes

First they drank, and ate, and drank. That was the easy part. Then they had to arrange themselves in order according to stringent protocol and form a procession. The eating and drinking of the symposium (and dancing girls and so on) have been very well researched, but the komos, the procession has been largely ignored. P羹tz (classics, Victoria U., New Zealand) relates the behaviors and themes of the symposium and komos to those expressed in the same settings in Aristophanes and the comic fragments from two angles: the use of the forms of celebration to shape plots and characters, and the use of the forms to delineate in comic form some practical matters. P羹tz expands upon her previous work here substantially with the latest and most important new research. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation 穢2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)