The Rivals Of Aristophanes
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The Rivals Of Aristophanes
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Author : David Harvey
language : en
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Release Date : 2002-12-31
The Rivals Of Aristophanes written by David Harvey and has been published by Classical Press of Wales this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-12-31 with History categories.
The work of the 'other' comic poets of classical Athens, those who competed with, and in some cases defeated, their (eventually) better-known fellow comedian, Aristophanes, has almost eluded the historical record. The poetry of Cratinus, Phrynichos, Eupolis and the rest has survived only in tantalising, often tiny, fragments and citations. Modern studies in this field have themselves often been difficult of access. Here an exceptional cast of scholars, including most of the leading international authorities, provides a set of 28 interpretative essays to cover every one of these 'other' poets of Athenian Old Comedy for whom significant evidence survives. The work includes a comprehensive bibliography, and is a landmark in the study of Old Comedy.
Aristophanes And The Poetics Of Competition
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Author : Zachary P. Biles
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-01-27
Aristophanes And The Poetics Of Competition written by Zachary P. Biles and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-27 with History categories.
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.
The Knights
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Author : Aristophanes
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-11-01
The Knights written by Aristophanes and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with Drama categories.
If the American Editor of this little volume (which is sent forth as a test of the character of American learning) deemed it either expedient or necessary to expatiate upon the merits of an author so celebrated and gifted as A ristophanes, he might extend his eulogia beyond the patient perusal of the moderns. The eloquent and erudite preliminary discourse by the accomplished translator, however, anticipates the remarks which otherwise would be expanded. No satirist, ancient or modern, ever enjoyed the deserved reputation of A ristophanes, and no one ever depicted, in colors so vivid and unfading, the essential and peculiar characteristics of democracy. As he lived under the dominion of the Universal People, he thoroughly understood the qualities of the democrats whom he has ridiculed and immortalized; and he never shrunk, when occasion demanded, from the exposure of flagrant abuses. Therefore, we commend, earnestly commend the perusal of this volume to our literary countrymen: and if the reception of this limited edition of a single comedy shall justify the editor in the more enlarged republication of all the works of A ristophanes, he will rejoice in the opportunity, thus afforded, of instructing and enlightening his countrymen.
Aristophanes The Democrat
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Author : Keith Sidwell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-10-22
Aristophanes The Democrat written by Keith Sidwell and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-22 with History categories.
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.
Aristophanes The Cloak Of Comedy
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Author : Mario Telò
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2016-04-18
Aristophanes The Cloak Of Comedy written by Mario Telò and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-18 with Performing Arts categories.
The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427–386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought stability, discipline, and sophistication to the rowdy theatrical genre of Old Comedy. In this groundbreaking book, situated within the affective turn in the humanities, Mario Telò explores a vital yet understudied question: how did this view of Aristophanes arise, and why did his popularity eventually eclipse that of his rivals? Telò boldly traces Aristophanes’s rise, ironically, to the defeat of his play Clouds at the Great Dionysia of 423 BCE. Close readings of his revised Clouds and other works, such as Wasps, uncover references to the earlier Clouds, presented by Aristophanes as his failed attempt to heal the audience, who are reflected in the plays as a kind of dysfunctional father. In this proto-canonical narrative of failure, grounded in the distinctive feelings of different comic modes, Aristophanic comedy becomes cast as a prestigious object, a soft, protective cloak meant to shield viewers from the debilitating effects of competitors’ comedies and restore a sense of paternal responsibility and authority. Associations between afflicted fathers and healing sons, between audience and poet, are shown to be at the center of the discourse that has shaped Aristophanes’s canonical dominance ever since.
Eupolis Poet Of Old Comedy
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Author : Ian Christopher Storey
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2003
Eupolis Poet Of Old Comedy written by Ian Christopher Storey and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Eupolis was one of the most important of Aristophanes' rivals. He wrote the same sort of topical and often indecent comedy as the surviving plays of Aristophanes. This book provides a translation of all the remaining fragments of his work and an essay on each lost play.
The Facts On File Companion To Classical Drama
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Author : John E. Thorburn
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2005
The Facts On File Companion To Classical Drama written by John E. Thorburn and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Criticism categories.
Surveys important Greek and Roman authors, plays, characters, genres, historical figures and more.
The Knights Of Aristophanes
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Author : Aristophanes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1837
The Knights Of Aristophanes written by Aristophanes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1837 with categories.
Philosophy Poetry And Power In Aristophanes S Birds
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Author : Daniel Holmes
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-11-23
Philosophy Poetry And Power In Aristophanes S Birds written by Daniel Holmes and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-23 with Philosophy categories.
Aristophanes was clearly anxious about the role of the sophists and the “new” education in Athens. After the perceived failure of Clouds in 423 and its subsequent, unperformed revision, Aristophanes, this book argues, returned in 414 with Birds, a continuation and deepening of his critique found in Clouds. Peisetaerus or “persuader of his comrades,” the protagonist of Birds, though an old man, is clearly a student of Socrates’ phrontisterion. Unlike Socrates, however, he is political and ambitious and he understands the whole of human nature, both rational and irrational. Peisetaerus employs the various deconstructive techniques of Socrates and his allies (which is summed up on the comic sage in the image of “father-beating”) to overturn not just human society, but, with the help of his new allies, the divine and musical birds, the cosmos. After his new gods and bird city, Cloudcuckooland, are actually established, however, the hero re-introduces the “old” ways - justice, moderation, and obedience to law – but now under his personal authority, and thereby becomes “the highest of the gods.” Thus, the author postulates, in 414 Aristophanes has come to acknowledge the potency of the apparent civic-minded turn (or element) of the sophists, while aware of the self-aggrandizing nature of their ambition. Peisetaerus, unlike Socrates, is successful: he is establishing a just polis and cosmos and, therefore, must be victorious. But the consequence or cost of this success is illustrated through the Bird Chorus. After the polis is founded, the birds never again sing of their musical reciprocity with the Muses, the source of melodies for men. The birds are now political and the policemen of human beings. The sophist-run cosmos has lost its music. The new Zeus is an ugly bird-mutant. The gods and all nomoi have lost their beauty, honor, and reverential nature. Birds, in its finale, hilariously, but boldlyilluminates the inherent tension between philosophy (reason) and poetry (divinely-inspired tradition).
The Cambridge Companion To Greek Comedy
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Author : Martin Revermann
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-06-12
The Cambridge Companion To Greek Comedy written by Martin Revermann and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-12 with Drama categories.
This book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.