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Sorrows and Joys of Dicaepolis: Aristophanes’ Acharnians 1–16 [PDF]

Studia Litterarum, 2021
First sixteen verses of Aristophanes’ Acharnians pose many questions to their commentator. Scholars had various conjectures concerning events that had provoked strong emotions of Dicaeopolis, about his ways of describing the emotions as well as about the
Igor A. Makarov, Boris M. Nikolsky
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Reference to the Lamp in Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen (v. 2): Reading Choice [PDF]

Studia Litterarum, 2022
Aristophanes’ comedy “Assemblywomen” begins with an apostrophe. In paratragic style, the character addresses the lamp as if she were a solar deity. The second verse of the comedy should contain a characterization that praises the lamp.
Ekaterina N. Buzurnyuk
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Was there a Sword? On Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae (v. 134–140) [PDF]

Studia Litterarum, 2022
In the prologue of Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae (134–140) Euripides’ Inlaw after seeing the poet Agathon expresses his bewilderment at the mixture of gender signals emitted by Agathon’s clothes and the objects he is surrounded with.
Sergey A. Stepantsov
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Translating Aristophanes’ humour for the Modern Greek stage: The Acharnians at the National Theatre of Greece (1961–2005) and the State Theatre of Northern Greece (1991–2010)

The European Journal of Humour Research, 2013
The paper explores the reception of Aristophanes’ first extant comedy The Acharnians (425 BC) in post-war Greek modern theatre by the two government-sponsored theatre institutions of Greece, namely the National Theatre of Greece (NTG) and the National ...
Vicky Manteli
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¿ANTI-PROVERBIOS O PARA-PROVERBIOS?

Proverbium, 2016
Wolfgang Mieder has created the word “antiproverbs” to name “parodied, twisted, or fractured proverbs that reveal humorous or satirical speech play with traditional proverbial wisdom”.
Fernando García Romero
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Tragedy and paratragedy in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe

2022
Personaggi, scene ed elementi comico-tragici nel romanzo 'Le avventure di Dafni e Cloe' di Longo ...
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Paratragedy and Paraiconography

1993
Abstract The juxtaposition of Aigisthos and Pyrrhias with their comic angels gives a fresh sense of the reverence and irreverence of their respective genres. While tragedy aspired to appear handsome and noble, comedy was bulging and disrespectful, with an overemphasis on the parts which should be decently concealed.
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Paratragedy in Plato’s Gorgias

2009
Abstract Recent scholarship on Plato̓s Gorgias has focused on three distinct axes of interpretation: first, the intractability of Callicles as an interlocutor and the limits of Socratic dialectic; second, the function and meaning of the eschatological myth with which the dialogue ends;3 and third, the dialogue̓s relationship to tragedy ...
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paratragediate, v.

2023
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Lucianic Paratragedy

2013
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