Aristophanes and politics : new studies /
"The essays in this volume explore the many aspects of the "political" in the plays of Greek comic dramatist Aristophanes (5th century BCE), posing a variety of questions and approaching them through diverse methodological lenses. They demonstrate that "politics" as reflecte...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2020]
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| ISBN: | 9004424466 9004424458 9789004424456 9789004424463 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Helene P. Foley and Ralph M. Rosen
- Prolegomena : accessing and understanding Aristophanic politics / Ralph M. Rosen
- Politics and laughter : the case of Aristophanes' Knights / Robin Osborne
- Patterns of avoidance and indirection in Athenian political satire / Jeffrey Henderson
- Conservative and radical : Aristophanic comedy and populist debate in democratic Athens / I.A. Ruffell
- Aristophanes' political comedies and (bad?) imitations / Olimpia Imperio
- Politics in the street : some citizen encounters in Aristophanes / Stephen Halliwell
- The politics of diversity : a quantitative analysis of Aristophanes / Carina de Klerk
- Strong household, strong city : space and politics in Aristophanes' Acharnians / Nina Papathanasopoulou
- Aristophanes' Birds as satire on Athenian opportunists in Thrace / Edith Hall
- The politics of dissensus in Aristophanes' Birds / Mario Telò
- Inscribing Athenians : the alphabetic chorus in Aristophanes' Babylonians and the politics and Aesthetics of inscription and conscription in fifth-century Athens / Deborah Steiner
- Afterword : the Boy from Cydathenaeum : some concluding reflections / Paul Cartledge.