Rusten, Jeffrey (ed.) (2011) The birth of comedy: texts, documents, and art from Athenian comic competitions, 486-280. Translated by Jeffrey Henderson, David Konstan, Ralph Rosen, Jeffrey Rusten, and Niall W. Slater. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. xx, 794 p. ISBN 978-0-8018-9448-0 (hbk). Price: £57.