Characters with disabilities or any type of impairment have been present in film productions since the early stages cinema. However, they seldom become main characters mainstream media and particular comedy films, as their body doesn’t belong to acceptable norm. Comedy has known a tool challenge system yet it seems scarcely used represent disabilities, drama being preferred choice for narrative...

Abstract Aelian offers a curious example of how comedy was tied to religion during the Second Sophistic. He describes votive relief dedicated by Old Comic poet Theopompus Asclepius, which he interprets as symbol genre (Theopomp. Com. test. 2 PCG = Ael. fr. 102 Domingo-Forasté). My article situates this passage within style and purpose Aelian’s miscellanies, in order explore transforms it into l...