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Aristophanes' Contemporaries (2024)
Book Chapter
Miles, S. (2024). Aristophanes' Contemporaries. In M. C. Farmer, & J. B. Lefkowitz (Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Aristophanes (304-318). Wiley

Performing Mime in the Idylls of Theocritus: Metrical Mime, Drama, and the “Everyday” in Theocritus, Idylls 2, 14, 15 (2021)
Book Chapter
Miles, S. (2021). Performing Mime in the Idylls of Theocritus: Metrical Mime, Drama, and the “Everyday” in Theocritus, Idylls 2, 14, 15. In P. Kyriakou, E. Sistakou, & A. Rengakos (Eds.), Brill's Companion to Theocritus (154-175). Brill Academic Publishers

Idylls 2, 14, and 15 are earmarked by scholars for their overt relationship with ancient mime. They have long carried the label “urban mimes,” but what is mime, let alone “urban mime,” and what is Theocritus’ relationship with the poorly preserved ar... Read More about Performing Mime in the Idylls of Theocritus: Metrical Mime, Drama, and the “Everyday” in Theocritus, Idylls 2, 14, 15.

Animating Antiquity on Children’s Television: The Visual Worlds of Ulysses 31 and Samurai Jack (2020)
Book Chapter
Miles, S. (2020). Animating Antiquity on Children’s Television: The Visual Worlds of Ulysses 31 and Samurai Jack. In I. Cisneros Abellán, M. Cristina de la Escosura Balbás, E. Duce Pastor, M. del Mar Rodríguez Alcocer, D. Serrano Lozano, & N. Tarancón Huarte (Eds.), Happily Ever Ancient: Visions of Antiquity for Children in Visual Media (95-112). JAS Arqueología Editorial

Paratragedy' and 'Strattis (2019)
Book Chapter
Miles, S. (2019). Paratragedy' and 'Strattis. In A. Sommerstein (Ed.), Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of Greek comedy. Wiley

Cultured Animals and Wild Humans? Talking with the Animals in Aristophanes’ Wasps (2017)
Book Chapter
Miles, S. (2017). Cultured Animals and Wild Humans? Talking with the Animals in Aristophanes’ Wasps. In T. Fögen, & E. Thomas (Eds.), Interactions between animals and humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (205-232). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110545623-009

This article focuses on animal characters and choruses as both companions and opponents to human action in Aristophanes’ Wasps (422 B.C.). In the world of Aristophanic comedies that contain animal choruses a unique situation emerges: humans and anima... Read More about Cultured Animals and Wild Humans? Talking with the Animals in Aristophanes’ Wasps.

Greek Drama in the Hellenistic world (2016)
Book Chapter
Miles, S. (2016). Greek Drama in the Hellenistic world. In B. van Zyl Smit (Ed.), A handbook to the reception of Greek drama (45-62). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118347805.ch3

This chapter starts with an outline of developments in the performance of Greek drama, and then traces the parallel and contemporary reception of Greek drama in textual form, focusing on Hellenistic scholarship and literature. Modern scholars see a m... Read More about Greek Drama in the Hellenistic world.

Staging and Constructing the Divine in Menander (2013)
Book Chapter
Miles, S. (2013). Staging and Constructing the Divine in Menander. In A. Sommerstein (Ed.), Menander in contexts (75-89). Routledge

The chapter explores Menander’s dramatisation of divine characters and asks: what was the significance for Menander’s original audiences of seeing divinities on-stage? Through analysing Menander’s engagement with the dramatic tradition of portraying... Read More about Staging and Constructing the Divine in Menander.