The Comic Body in Ancient Greek Theatre and Art, 440–320 BCE

Alexa Piqueux will present some of the main findings of her book The Comic Body in Ancient Greek Theatre and Art, 440-320 BCE, to be published by Oxford University Press in May 2022. Using both textual and iconographic sources, it examines the representations of the body in Greek Old and Middle Comedy, how it was staged, perceived, and imagined, particularly in Athens, Magna Graecia, and Sicily. The study also aims to refine knowledge of the various connections between Attic comedy and comic vases from South Italy and Sicily (the so-called ‘phlyax vases’).