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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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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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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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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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The Lentini Auge Vase as Paratragic Recognition Scene

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

, 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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¿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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11. Lucianic Paratragedy

2019
T. Whitmarsh
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Give Me a Bit of Paratragedy

2017
M. Farmer
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Introduction

Paracomedy, 2020
This introductory chapter presents the reader with the concept of paracomedy, which is tragedy’s appropriation of comedy, and distinguishes it from paratragedy, which is comedy’s appropriation of tragedy.
Craig Jendza
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