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2023
This chapter reviews Aristophanes' Ecclesiazousae, which showcases performance at different levels: the performance of gender, the performance of politics, and the performance of utopian schemes. It displays and plays with Athenian role-modeling with immense comic verve. It makes a joke of civic (and sexual) performance.
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This chapter reviews Aristophanes' Ecclesiazousae, which showcases performance at different levels: the performance of gender, the performance of politics, and the performance of utopian schemes. It displays and plays with Athenian role-modeling with immense comic verve. It makes a joke of civic (and sexual) performance.
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2022
This chapter assesses Aristophanes, who is represented by eleven complete comedies and more than a thousand fragments of other plays. From antiquity on, his earlier plays, i.e., those produced between 426 and 405 B.C.E., belong to a classification called Old Comedy in recognition of certain distinguishing characteristics such as bawdiness, attacks on ...
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This chapter assesses Aristophanes, who is represented by eleven complete comedies and more than a thousand fragments of other plays. From antiquity on, his earlier plays, i.e., those produced between 426 and 405 B.C.E., belong to a classification called Old Comedy in recognition of certain distinguishing characteristics such as bawdiness, attacks on ...
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2011
Introduzione, edizione critica, traduzione e commento dell'esegesi antica ad Aristofane su papiro. Seconda edizione (prima: 2006) con aggiornamento bibliografico, correzioni, incrementi in sede di introduzione e di commento, aggiunta di una tavola.
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Introduzione, edizione critica, traduzione e commento dell'esegesi antica ad Aristofane su papiro. Seconda edizione (prima: 2006) con aggiornamento bibliografico, correzioni, incrementi in sede di introduzione e di commento, aggiunta di una tavola.
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Classical Antiquity, 2008
A scholiast's note on Lysistrata mentions that there was an alternative title to the play: Adôniazousai. A close reading of the play with this title in mind reveals that Lysistrata and her allies metaphorically hold an Adonis festival atop the Acropolis.
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A scholiast's note on Lysistrata mentions that there was an alternative title to the play: Adôniazousai. A close reading of the play with this title in mind reveals that Lysistrata and her allies metaphorically hold an Adonis festival atop the Acropolis.
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1993
This book places the plays of Aristophanes in their contemporary context, asking what aspects of Greek, and especially Athenian, culture these comedies brought into play for their original audiences. It makes particular use of the structural analysis of Greek rituals and myths to demonstrate how their meanings and functions can be used to interpret the
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This book places the plays of Aristophanes in their contemporary context, asking what aspects of Greek, and especially Athenian, culture these comedies brought into play for their original audiences. It makes particular use of the structural analysis of Greek rituals and myths to demonstrate how their meanings and functions can be used to interpret the
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2017
In this paper I sketch what is in my view Aristophanes’ main contribution to the history of Socratism. Aristophanes, I argue, provided Socrates with a (literally) “iconic” status that proved a major influence for Socratic writers and for Plato in particular, to the extent that it would be hard to imagine Plato’s Socrates in the absence of Aristophanes’.
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In this paper I sketch what is in my view Aristophanes’ main contribution to the history of Socratism. Aristophanes, I argue, provided Socrates with a (literally) “iconic” status that proved a major influence for Socratic writers and for Plato in particular, to the extent that it would be hard to imagine Plato’s Socrates in the absence of Aristophanes’.
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