Aristophanes the Democrat: The Politics of Satirical Comedy During the Peloponnesian War

ISBN-13: 9781009073202 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 423 str.

Keith Sidwell

Opis

This book argues that writers of Old Comedy belonged to recognisable political circles and used their comedy to disparage their political enemies.

Spis treści

Part I. Setting the Stage: 1. Getting to grips with the politics of Old Comedy; 2. Metacomedy and politics; 3. Metacomedy and caricature; Part II. The Poets' War: 4. Acharnians; 5. Metacomedy, caricature and politics from Knights to Peace; 6. Metacomedy, caricature and politics from Autolycus to Frogs; Conclusions and consequences: Appendix 1. The view from the Theatron; Appendix 2. Metacomedy and caricature in the surviving fourth century plays of Aristophanes; Appendix 3. Timeline and proposed relationships between comedies; Bibliography.