Comic butt and comic hero : conceptions of comedy
Beggar man, king : Homer's Odysseus
Jackanapes in the highest : the Aristophanic hero
Bondservant and beast of burden : Plautine slave and Lucius the Ass
Renegade vassal : Reynard the Fox
Monarch of make-believe : Sir John Falstaff
Aberrant hidalgo : Don Quixote
Moral rake and masterful lackey : Tom Jones and Jacques the Fatalist
Insouciant lover and insatiable stumblebums : Don Juan and Bouvard and Pecuchet
Ulysses and Hermes in modern times : Leopold Bloom and Felix Krull
Appendix : Ancient views of the Odyssey as tragedy and as comedy.
