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Aristophanes and the Current Moment : The Politics of Comedy.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Bloomsbury Ancient Politics.
- Bloomsbury Ancient Politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aristophanes--Criticism and interpretation.
- Aristophanes.
- Politics and literature--Greece--Athens.
- Politics and literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
- System Details:
- text file HTML
- Summary:
- Examines the comedies of Aristophanes from the perspective of the playwright as a political 'correspondent' rather than a political 'respondent'.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Halftitle page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Aristophanes' Current Moments: An Introduction
- Aristophanes' many current moments
- Aristophanes' historical moment
- The current 'current moment'
- Comedy and provisionality
- Teachable moments?
- Writing about Aristophanes
- 2 Reading Leo Strauss Reading Aristophanes
- Reactions to the book
- Revelation vs philosophy
- Pedagogy and discipline
- Conclusion
- 3 War, Territory, Sexual Violence and Citizenship in Aristophanes
- Introduction: Sexual violence today
- Raping Thraitta
- Skewering Megarian children
- Territory and the female body
- 4 The Crook and the Sycophant: Aristophanes, Hate Speech and Power
- Introduction
- Attitudinal lexis and changing insults
- Two lessons in delegitimization from Aristophanes
- Crook! Only take what we say you're entitled to
- Beware the sycophant and the mob-monkey (= shitgibbon?)
- Closing thoughts: Shifting social discourses
- 5 Freedom of Speech and Moral Panic in Democratic Athens
- The comedian as hero
- Platforming speech
- Comedy, culture war and moral panic
- Rethinking freedom of speech
- Trauma and response
- 6 Ponera orgē: The Problem of 'Anger' in Aristophanes' Lysistrata and Its Reception
- Orgē in Aristophanes and Athens
- Anger as a 'pathology' of male deliberation in Lysistrata
- Righteous indignation: The angry women of Lysistrata
- Angry business as usual
- Anger in Spike Lee's Chi-Raq
- 7 Aristophanes and the Gendered Politics of Performative Assembly
- Collective actors in the Aristophanic chorus
- Gendered political action in the Lysistrata
- The failure of women's collective action in the Ecclesiazusae
- 8 Batracho-Politics for 2024
- 9 Peace and Shit: Aristophanes as Primer on Copropolitics.
- Subjection and its precedents
- Testing copropolitics: Contemporary perspectives
- Index.
- ISBN:
- 1-350-47511-4
- 1-350-47509-2
- OCLC:
- 1535209405
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