Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae: Philosophizing Theatre and the Politics of Perception in Late Fifth-Century Athens

ISBN-13: 9781108820240 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 243 str.

Ashley Clements

Opis

Offers scholars of Greek literature new evidence of Aristophanes' polemical use of philosophy in poetic competition; ancient philosophers new evidence of the popular reception of Parmenides; and scholars in theatre studies new evidence that explicit theorizing about theatre begins with a comic appropriation of Eleatic ideas about reality and illusion.

Spis treści

Proagōn: a tragic fable; 1. Introduction; 2. Rereading the prologue; 3. Sophistic models: eristic and άντιλογία; 4. On what [it] is not: Gorgias and Empedocles; 5. On what [it] is: Parmenides, para-Doxa, and mortal error; 6. Conclusion; Appendices.