Conclusion

Abstract

AbstractThe conclusion presents a synthetic overview of the findings reached in the book. They show how the enquiry has confirmed close links between textual and visual evidence relating to comedy, particularly between Attic comedy and comic vases from South Italy and Sicily. Certain fundamental aspects of the comic body which have been identified and studied from various points of view are highlighted, in particular the ambivalent meaning of its look, which prompts a positive and a negative laughter at the same time; its relatively undefined form, which is given meaning through speech; how the bodily signs that convey social and moral characterization meet the real-world aesthetic and moral criteria; its unreal and poetic vitality.