Aristophanes and Politics

New Studies
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42445-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 45, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Reihe: Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition

The essays in this volume explore the many aspects of the “political” in the plays of Greek comic dramatist Aristophanes (5th century BCE), posing a variety of questions and approaching them through diverse methodological lenses. They demonstrate that “politics” as reflected in Aristophanes’ plays remains a fertile, and even urgent, area of inquiry, as political developments in our own time distinctly color the ways in which we articulate questions about classical Athens. As this volume shows, the earlier scholarship on politics in (or “and”) Aristophanes, which tended to focus on determining Aristophanes’ “actual” political views, has by now given way to approaches far more sensitive to how comic literary texts work and more attentive to the complexities of Athenian political structures and social dynamics. All the studies in this volume grapple to varying degrees with such methodological tensions, and show, that the richer and more diverse our political readings of Aristophanes can become, the less stable and consistent, as befits a comic work, they appear to be.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rosen, Ralph M

Foley, Helene P

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Helene P. Foley and Ralph M. Rosen

1 Prolegomena: Accessing and Understanding Aristophanic Politics

Ralph M. Rosen

2 Politics and Laughter: the Case of Aristophanes’ Knights

Robin Osborne

3 Patterns of Avoidance and Indirection in Athenian Political Satire

Jeffrey Henderson

4 Conservative and Radical: Aristophanic Comedy and Populist Debate in Democratic Athens

I. A. Ruffell

5 Aristophanes’ Political Comedies and (Bad?) Imitations

Olimpia Imperio

6 Politics in the Street: Some Citizen Encounters in Aristophanes

Stephen Halliwell

7 The Politics of Diversity: a Quantitative Analysis of Aristophanes

Carina de Klerk

8 Strong Household, Strong City: Space and Politics in Aristophanes’ Acharnians

Nina Papathanasopoulou

9 Aristophanes’ Birds as Satire on Athenian Opportunists in Thrace

Edith Hall

10 The Politics of Dissensus in Aristophanes’ Birds

Mario Telò

11 Inscribing Athenians: the Alphabetic Chorus in Aristophanes’ Babylonians and the Politics and Aesthetics of Inscription and Conscription in Fifth-Century Athens

Deborah Steiner

12 Afterword: the Boy from Cydathenaeum Some Concluding Reflections

Paul Cartledge

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ralph M. Rosen, Ph.D. (1983), Harvard University, is Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities and Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published broadly on Greek and Roman literature and culture, with a focus on ancient comedy and satire, comparative poetics, Greek intellectual history and ancient medicine.

Helene P. Foley, Ph.D. (1975), Harvard University, Claire Tow Professor of Classics at Barnard College, Columbia University has published books and articles on Greek epic and drama, on women and gender in Antiquity, and on modern performance and adaptation of Greek drama.