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Aristophanes and Politics : New Studies.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (296 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004424463
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Aristophanes and PoliticsDDC classification:
  • 882.01
LOC classification:
  • PA3879 .A757 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Prolegomena: Accessing and Understanding Aristophanic Politics -- Chapter 2 Politics and Laughter: the Case of Aristophanes' Knights -- Chapter 3 Patterns of Avoidance and Indirection in Athenian Political Satire -- Chapter 4 Conservative and Radical: Aristophanic Comedy and Populist Debate in Democratic Athens -- Chapter 5 Aristophanes' Political Comedies and (Bad?) Imitations -- Chapter 6 Politics in the Street: Some Citizen Encounters in Aristophanes -- Chapter 7 The Politics of Diversity: a Quantitative Analysis of Aristophanes -- Chapter 8 Strong Household, Strong City: Space and Politics in Aristophanes' Acharnians -- Chapter 9 Aristophanes' Birds as Satire on Athenian Opportunists in Thrace -- Chapter 10 The Politics of Dissensus in Aristophanes' Birds -- Chapter 11 Inscribing Athenians: the Alphabetic Chorus in Aristophanes' Babylonians and the Politics and Aesthetics of Inscription and Conscription in Fifth-Century Athens -- Chapter 12 Afterword: the Boy from Cydathenaeum Some Concluding Reflections -- Index.
Summary: This book presents a collection of new studies on the political aspects of Aristophanes' comic plays, produced in Athens in the latter half of the 5th century BCE.
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Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Prolegomena: Accessing and Understanding Aristophanic Politics -- Chapter 2 Politics and Laughter: the Case of Aristophanes' Knights -- Chapter 3 Patterns of Avoidance and Indirection in Athenian Political Satire -- Chapter 4 Conservative and Radical: Aristophanic Comedy and Populist Debate in Democratic Athens -- Chapter 5 Aristophanes' Political Comedies and (Bad?) Imitations -- Chapter 6 Politics in the Street: Some Citizen Encounters in Aristophanes -- Chapter 7 The Politics of Diversity: a Quantitative Analysis of Aristophanes -- Chapter 8 Strong Household, Strong City: Space and Politics in Aristophanes' Acharnians -- Chapter 9 Aristophanes' Birds as Satire on Athenian Opportunists in Thrace -- Chapter 10 The Politics of Dissensus in Aristophanes' Birds -- Chapter 11 Inscribing Athenians: the Alphabetic Chorus in Aristophanes' Babylonians and the Politics and Aesthetics of Inscription and Conscription in Fifth-Century Athens -- Chapter 12 Afterword: the Boy from Cydathenaeum Some Concluding Reflections -- Index.

This book presents a collection of new studies on the political aspects of Aristophanes' comic plays, produced in Athens in the latter half of the 5th century BCE.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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