Aristophanes the Democrat: The Politics of Satirical Comedy during the Peloponnesian War - Rilegato

Sidwell, Keith

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ISBN 10: 0521519985 ISBN 13: 9780521519984

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Riassunto

This book provides a new interpretation of the nature of Old Comedy and its place at the heart of Athenian democratic politics. Professor Sidwell argues that Aristophanes and his rivals belonged to opposing political groups, each with their own political agenda. Through disguised caricature and parody of their rivals' work, the poets expressed and fuelled the political conflict between their factions. Professor Sidwell rereads the principal texts of Aristophanes and the fragmented remains of the work of his rivals in the light of these arguments for the political foundations of the genre.

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Descrizione del libro:

Challenging the current view that Old Comedy is politically neutral, Keith Sidwell argues that poets belonged to recognisable political circles and used their comedy to disparage their political enemies, including rival poets who belonged to different groups. He rereads the principal works of Aristophanes and his rivals in this light.

L'autore:

Keith Sidwell is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies, University of Calgary. He has written on Greek drama, later Greek literature - including most recently Lucian: Chattering Courtesans and Other Sardonic Sketches (2004) - and on Neo-Latin writing and is a co-author of the Reading Greek and Reading Latin series, and author of Reading Medieval Latin (1995).

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521519985
• ISBN 13: 9780521519984
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 424