Aristophanes and the Poetics of Competition

ISBN-13: 9780521764070 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 302 str.

Zachary P Biles

Opis

Demonstrates how the competitive context in which Athenian comic drama was performed shaped the poetry and plots of Aristophanes' plays.

Recenzje

'… this book is a thoroughly researched, imaginative and engaging piece of scholarship which deserves a prominent place in Aristophanic studies.' Emmanuela Bakola, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Dedication; Abbreviations; Proagon; 1. From Thamyris to Aristophanes: the competitive poetics of the comic parabasis; 2. The competitive partnership of Aristophanes and Dikaiopolis in Acharnians; 3. Aristophanes' poetic tropaion: competitive didaskalia and contest records in Knights; 4. Intertextual biography in the rivalry of Cratinus and Aristophanes; 5. Aristophanes' Clouds-palinode; 6. Dionysos and dionysia in Frogs; Bibliography.