Aristophanes and Alcibiades : : Echoes of Contemporary History in Athenian Comedy / / Michael Vickers.
The conventional view of Aristophanes bristles with problems. Important testimony for Alcibiades’ paramount role in comedy is consistently disregarded, and the tradition that “masks were made to look like the komodoumenoi, so that before an actor spoke a word, the audience would recognize who was be...
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| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. Political Allegory in Aristophanes
- Chapter 2. Wordplay; Pericles, Alcibiades and Aspasia on Stage
- Chapter 3. Pericles (and Alcibiades) on Stage: The Story So Far
- Chapter 4. The Tragic Context: the Case of Euripides’ Ion
- Chapter 5. Happy Families: Plutus i
- Chapter 6. Home Economics: Plutus ii
- Chapter 7. “The Woman of Old”: Euripides’ Helen and Andromeda
- Chapter 8. “Alcibiades is a Woman’s Man”: Lysistrata
- Chapter 9. Alcibiades in Gaol: Thesmophoriazusae
- Chapter 10. Frogs: Nothing to Do With Literature
- Chapter 11. Aspasia on Stage: Ecclesiazusae
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Alcibiades’ “Servile Birth”, Alcibiades’ “Matrophilia”: Inventions of the Stage?
- Appendix 2. The Athenian Plague of 430–428 BC
- Appendix 3. Keith Sidwell’s Aristophanes the Democrat
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- General Index