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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‘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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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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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.
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Action, Song, and Poetry. Musical and Poetical Meta-performance in Aristophanes and Ben Jonson [PDF]
, 2023 That a strong relationship must have existed between Ben Jonson’s theatre works and Aristophanes’ plays is a long-standing scholarly commonplace. The question, however, has hardly ever been approached from a truly comparative perspective, taking into ...
Grilli, Alessandro, Morosi, Francesco
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Bearing Razors and Swords: Paracomedy in Euripides’ Orestes [PDF]
, 2016 In this article, I trace a nuanced interchange between Euripides’ Helen, Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae, and Euripides’ Orestes that contains a previously overlooked example of Aristophanic paratragedy and Euripides’ paracomic response. I argue that the
Jendza, Craig
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The Vase as a Stage? Assteas’ Calyx-Krater from Buccino and the Importance of Visual Parody in Paestan Vase- Painting [PDF]
, 2022 In this paper, the problematic relationship between theatre and vase-painting is investigated by focusing on Assteas’ calyx-krater in Buccino. This depicts a parody of the rape of Kassandra.
Figura, Federico
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Holding the Baby: A Parody of Euripides\u27 Auge at Philyllius Fragment 4. Language: English [PDF]
, 2021 This paper focuses on a hitherto unnoticed parody of a scene in Euripides\u27 Auge by the comic poet Philyllius at the outset of the fourth century. It argues that fragment 4 from Philyllius\u27 Auge , in which a man holds loaves of bread as though they ...
Compton-Engle, Gwendolyn
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, 2014 The term "parody" derives from the ancient Greek word parodia and has come to include a variety of meanings connected with correlative terms such as "pastiche," "quotation," "satire," and "allusion." At the present time, more than a few commentators are ...
Weiser, Peg Zeglin Brand
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Aristophanes and the Cult of the Saviour [PDF]
, 2020 Aristophanes’ Knights, Peace, and Birds are deeply interested in the figure of the civic “saviour”, who is depicted as a Gottmensch: a man become god or, at least, a man deserving of religious treatment such as the gods receive.
Currie, Bruno
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