Pericles on Stage : : Political Comedy in Aristophanes' Early Plays /

Pericles on Stage : : Political Comedy in Aristophanes' Early Plays / / Michael Vickers.

Since the eighteenth century, classical scholars have generally agreed that the Greek playwright Aristophanes did not as a matter of course write "political" plays. Yet, according to an anonymous Life of Aristophanes, when Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse wanted to know about the governmen...

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Vickers, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • NICIAS, LAMACHUS, ANDALCIBIADES Political Allegory in Aristophanes
  • CHAPTER 1 Pericles and Alcibiades on Stage
  • CHAPTER 2 Pericles and Alcibiades at the Phrontistery: Aristophanes' Clouds 1
  • CHAPTER 3 Pericles, Alcibiades, and the Generation Gap: Aristophanes' Clouds II
  • CHAPTER 4 Pericles on the Pnyx: Aristophanes' Acharnians I
  • CHAPTER 5 Pericles in the Agora: Aristophanes' Acharnians II
  • CHAPTER 6 Pericles, the Typhoon, and the Hurricane: Aristophanes' Knights
  • CHAPTER 7 Pericles, Alcibiades, the Law Courts, and the Symposium: Aristophanes' Wasps
  • CHAPTER 8 Alcibiades and Pericles on Olympus: Aristophanes' Peace
  • CHAPTER 9 Alcibiades at Sparta: Aristophanes' Birds I
  • CHAPTER 10 Pericles at Sparta: Aristophanes' Birds II
  • CONCLUSION
  • APPENDIX A Posthumous Parody in Cratinus' Dionysalexandros
  • APPENDIX B The Athenian Plague of 430-428 B.C
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • GENERAL INDEX
  • INDEX LOCORUM

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