Aristophanes : myth, ritual, and comedy / A.M. Bowie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowie, Angus M.

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristophanes--Criticism and interpretation.

Aristophanes.

Greek drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Comedy).

Mythology, Greek, in literature.

Ritual in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 328 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [1993]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book examines the plays of the Greek comic writer Aristophanes and attempts to reconstruct the responses of the original audiences.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Acharnians. The 'Unjust' and 'Just' Cities. Telephus. Another view of Dicaeopolis. The Anthesteria. Polis and deme

3. Knights. Rites of passage. Knights and ephebeia. Knights and the succession. Knights and Athens. Sausage-Seller and salvation

4. Wasps. Wasps and transition. Philocleon's agones. Philocleon redivivus. Implications

5. Clouds. Strepsiades' ephebeia. Socrates goes. The Cloud-Chorus. Morality and humour

6. Peace. Dung-Beetle. Hermes. The return of Peace

7. Birds. Birds and foundation-mythology. Fantasy and Utopia?

8. Lysistrata. Women in Athens. Preliminaries. The women. The men. Reconciliation

9. Thesmophoriazusae. Thesmophoriazusae and Thesmophoria. Thesmophoria and Euripidean tragedy

10. Frogs. Frogs and Eleusis? Orpheus, Dionysus and Eleusis. Frogs and Mysteries. Frogs and politics. Mysteries and poetic agon

11. Ecclesiazusae

12. Plutus. Economic and social circumstances. Plutus. Charis. Plutus, Asclepius, Prometheus, Hermes. Wealth versus Poverty.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-316) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780511518362

0511518366

Publisher Number:

99984103233

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