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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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The Lentini Auge Vase as Paratragic Recognition Scene [PDF]
PHOENIX Workshops:A Sicilian calyx-krater from Lentini, ca 340–330 b.c.e., shows a parody of a tragedy, likely Euripides’ Auge. The altar, the statue, and the woman’s costume parallel tragic iconography.
Gwendolyn Compton-Engle
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Intriga cómica versus intriga trágica en Tesmoforiantes de Aristófanes [PDF]
, 2012 Thesmophoriazousae is a play with a wide presence of parodic elements taken from the rescue tragedies of Euripides. In the present article we analyze the way in which Aristophanes, when plotting the comic action in this comedy, recreates the typical ...
Milagros Quijada Sagredo
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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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Teknophagy and Tragicomedy: The Mythic Burlesques of Tereus and Thyestes [PDF]
, 2018 Teknophagy (τεκνοϕαγία), or child-eating, is an apt subject for tragedy. It introduces the theme of miasma, it escalates violence and epitomises the destructive family feuds that Aristotle prized as the most suitable stories for tragedy.
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τοὐπὶ τῇ φακῇ μύρον (Sopater fr. 13, 1): Odysseus the Hedonist [PDF]
, 2020 The paper advances a new interpretation of the proverb τοὐπὶ τῇ φακῇ μύρον (“the perfume in the lentil-soup”) as attested in Sopater’s single surviving fragment from his play Nekyia, where it is used to satirically describe Odysseus.
Papachrysostomou, Athina
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‘DON'T LET ME BECOME A COMIC SHIT-POT!’: SCATOLOGY IN ARISTOPHANES’ ASSEMBLYWOMEN [PDF]
, 2023 This article examines scatology in Aristophanes Assemblywomen, and argues that the play sets out to subvert comedy's normal scatological poetics. Old Comedy is usually a genre characterized by corporeal and scatological freedom. The constipation scene in
Scott, Naomi
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Neural geological-genetic and radiogeochemical forecast model of oil-bearing fields [PDF]
, 2015 In recent years, oil and gas exploration are increasingly turning to direct methods to identify accumulations of hydrocarbons (magnetometry, radiometry, geochemical methods, etc.). Similar works are tested high in the Tomsk region, near the Ob basin.
Gorbachev, S. V. +1 more
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