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Aristophanes and Politics: New Studies

Aristophanes and Politics: New Studies

Rosen, Ralph M.
Foley, Helene P.

Hardcover

Series: Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, Book 45

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 9004424458
ISBN13: 9789004424456
Publisher: Brill
Published: Apr 16 2020
Pages: 286
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
The essays in this volume explore the many aspects of the political in the plays of Greek comic dramatist Aristophanes (5th century BCE), posing a variety of questions and approaching them through diverse methodological lenses. They demonstrate that politics as reflected in Aristophanes' plays remains a fertile, and even urgent, area of inquiry, as political developments in our own time distinctly color the ways in which we articulate questions about classical Athens. As this volume shows, the earlier scholarship on politics in (or and) Aristophanes, which tended to focus on determining Aristophanes' actual political views, has by now given way to approaches far more sensitive to how comic literary texts work and more attentive to the complexities of Athenian political structures and social dynamics. All the studies in this volume grapple to varying degrees with such methodological tensions, and show, that the richer and more diverse our political readings of Aristophanes can become, the less stable and consistent, as befits a comic work, they appear to be.

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