Ancient Greek Comedy
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The play in which Aristophanes gives his account of the project of the third living wise man (after Socrates and Aristophanes himself): Euripides the tragic poet. To accompany Leo Strauss, SOCRATES AND ARISTOPHANES.
Ο τύπος του μισάνθρωπου υπήρξε ιδιαίτερα προσφιλής στην ιστορία της λογοτεχνίας, καθώς αποτέλεσε το προσωπείο του δημιουργού για να στηλιτεύσει τα κακώς κείμενα της κοινωνίας και της εποχής του. Αρχικά ερευνούμε τη σχέση του ποιητικού... more
No comedies are preserved from 413 or 412 BC. But we do have two — Aristophanes' Lysistrata and Thesmophoriazusae — that were performed in 411. The plot of Lysistrata is overtly political. Scholars have nonetheless found it difficult to... more
The topic of this paper (delivered at a recent seminar in Chieti, 13 December 2018) is the vision of democratic politics implicit in Aristophanes' Wasps, with particular attention to Cleon. In particular, I argue that what Cleon... more
in M. Jufresa; F. Mestre; P. Gómez; P. Gilabert (eds.), Plutarc a la seva època: paideia i societat, Barcelona 2005, 425-430.
Edited by Philip Walsh, Washington College Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes provides a substantive account of the reception of Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BC) from Antiquity to the present. Aristophanes was the renowned... more
https://elibrary.steiner-verlag.de/article/10.25162/hermes-2020-0031 This article addresses the topic of excerpts by focusing on modern excerpting practices used in the analysis of Greek myth. It examines the mythological exemplum... more
Aristofanas, Plautas, Menandras, Terencijus.
Crises--such as COVID-19, the Great Recession, and 9/11--are often triggered by low-probability, high-consequence events. Tragedy can help us model the impact of the highly improbable because tragedy is the art form that dramatizes... more
Classical Philology 112/2 (2017) 246-252, on the form ἐργαστήριον in Menander, and on the concept of 'blocking' in derivational morphology.
Hoe kwam Sparta’s koning Agesilaos tot de grootheidswaan dat hij het soevereine Rijk van de Perzische koning wel even omver kon werpen? Met kinderlijke eenvoud zet Artoxerxes de Grieken tegen elkaar op en blijft Athener Xenophon niets dan... more
O artigo examina a recepção das comédias Lisístrata e Assembleia de Mulheres, de Aristófanes, em As Mulheres de Atenas, de Augusto Boal. Escrita durante o exílio na Argentina (1971-1976), inicialmente intitulada Lisa, a mulher... more
Pallas 108 - Table des matières
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(article disponible sur/paper available on https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03637687v1)
This article argues that the “hauling scene” (458–728) of Aristophanes’ Peace is modeled on a distinctive fishing technology, the beach seine, and not, as is commonly held, on the hauling of heavily freighted commercial vessels into port.... more
This book of satires from the Roman poet Horace was his first published work. Rather than a collection of satirical sideswipes, as the genre might have dictated, the book is a wiry, tight, muscular, interlaced hexameter artwork of... more
Die Frauenkomödien bieten auf Grund ihrer zahlreichen strukturellen und inhaltlichen Parallelen die einzigartige Möglichkeit, die Darstellung von Frauen in der aristo-phanischen Komödie vergleichend zu untersuchen. Die Lysistrata (411)... more
Este breve estudo comparativo das comédias de Aristófanes Os Cavaleiros e Os Acarnenses pretende abordar a forma pela qual política do representante democrático da Atenas do século V a.C. era vista por Aristófanes, tal como a crítica que... more
The Fragments of Crates Comicus. Introduction, translation and commentary. This volume of the series «Fragmenta Comica» is devoted to one of the major names in the first generation of comic poets, Crates. Mentioned by Aristophanes in the... more
Ο συνδυασμός παραμυθιακής φαντασίας και πολιτικής καθορίζει την ιδιότυπη φύση της αττικής Παλαιάς Κωμωδίας. Η ελληνική κωμική παράδοση ξεκινάει δίχως πολιτικό χρωματισμό, με το σικελιώτικο δράμα του Επίχαρμου, το οποίο συνεχίζουν στην... more
The purpose of my dissertation is to analyse the negative comments concerning Pericles; the 5th Century BCE Athenian statesman and general. This will involve an assessment of both ancient and modern writers. It will include an exploration... more