Professor Sifakis's latest study offers a critical analysis of the evidence on two topics concerning the origins and development of Greek comedy. This new examination into the function, form and origins of those parts in which the chorus addressed the audience in the poet's name is based upon the author's conviction that all earlier analyses of the subject have been based on a false premise, viz. the assumption that the parabasis interrupted the dramatic illusion a term and notion which is claimed to be inapplicable to Greek drama. Professor Sifakis then uses the results of this study to investigate performances, and their survival in classical times, of the animal choruses shown on sixth or early fifth-century vases.

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