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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Rosen, Ralph Mark (Editor), Foley, Helene P., 1942- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Series:Columbia studies in the classical tradition ; vol. 45.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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.