Aristophanes and the Poetics of Competition - Rilegato

Biles, Zachary P.

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ISBN 10: 0521764076 ISBN 13: 9780521764070

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Riassunto

Athenian comic drama was written for performance at festivals honouring the god Dionysos. Through dramatic action and open discourse, poets sought to engage their rivals and impress the audience, all in an effort to obtain victory in the competitions. This book uses that competitive performance context as an interpretive framework within which to understand the thematic interests shaping the plots and poetic quality of Aristophanes' plays in particular, and of Old Comedy in general. Studying five individual plays from the Aristophanic corpus as well as fragments of other comic poets, it reveals the competitive poetics distinctive to each. It also traces thematic connections with other poetic traditions, especially epic, lyric, and tragedy, and thereby seeks to place competitive poetics within broader trends in Greek literature.

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Recensione:

'... 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

Descrizione del libro:

Athenian comedy was written for performance in competitions at religious festivals. This book applies traditional philological techniques to five of Aristophanes' plays in order to demonstrate how that competitive context shaped his poetry and plots, as he sought to engage his rivals and impress the audience in order to win.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521764076
• ISBN 13: 9780521764070
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 302