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Aristophanes and Politics New Studies

Rosen Ralph M. Foley, Helene P.
Innbundet / 2020 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9789004424456
Published
2020
Publisher
Brill; Brill
Weight
566 gr
Height
235 mm
Width
155 mm
Thickness
23 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Edited by
Rosen Ralph M.
Foley, Helene P.

Biographical note

Ralph M. Rosen, Ph.D. (1983), Harvard University, is Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities and Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published broadly on Greek and Roman literature and culture, with a focus on ancient comedy and satire, comparative poetics, Greek intellectual history and ancient medicine.
Helene P. Foley, Ph.D. (1975), Harvard University, Claire Tow Professor of Classics at Barnard College, Columbia University has published books and articles on Greek epic and drama, on women and gender in Antiquity, and on modern performance and adaptation of Greek drama.

Aristophanes and Politics New Studies

Rosen Ralph M. Foley, Helene P.
Innbundet / 2020 / Engelsk
Rosen Ralph M. Foley, Helene P.
Innbundet / 2020 / Engelsk
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"Thankfully, these dozen essays transcend the tired questions (from the late 18th-century onward) of “Aristophanes’ politics” that subjected the playwright to the historical equivalent of Gallup polling. Provocative and nuanced, most of them succeed in showing, by contrast, how the dramatist embodies and enacts a public role: Aristophanes <i>is</i> politics." - Richard Martin, in: <i>BMCR</i> 2021.04.36<br />
"This is a stimulating and thought-provoking volume for whoever wants to have a dialogue with up-to-date research on the topic." - Mariana Franco San Roman, in: <i>The Classical Review</i> 71.2 311–313
''No seu todo, há que louvar a coerência do volume e a articulação entre as diversas contribuições, suscitando por vezes interessantes – e como que involuntárias – divergências, internas ao próprio conjunto. Além disso, algumas das colaborações apostam manifestamente em perspetivas e
interpretações inovadoras sobretudo quando estão em causa peças concretas. A leitura deste estudo criativo e inovador sobre uma matéria que necessita, em função da própria evolução da experiência social humana, de uma constante revisão, é certamente da maior valia para todos os que se rendem ao encanto das comédias de Aristófanes.'' Maria de Fátima Silva in <i>Cadmo</i> 2021.

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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This book presents a collection of new studies on the political aspects of Aristophanes’ comic plays, produced in Athens in the latter half of the 5th century BCE.
Introduction  Helene P. Foley and Ralph M. Rosen 1 Prolegomena: Accessing and Understanding Aristophanic Politics  Ralph M. Rosen 2 Politics and Laughter: the Case of Aristophanes’ Knights  Robin Osborne 3 Patterns of Avoidance and Indirection in Athenian Political Satire  Jeffrey Henderson 4 Conservative and Radical: Aristophanic Comedy and Populist Debate in Democratic Athens  I. A. Ruffell 5 Aristophanes’ Political Comedies and (Bad?) Imitations  Olimpia Imperio 6 Politics in the Street: Some Citizen Encounters in Aristophanes  Stephen Halliwell 7 The Politics of Diversity: a Quantitative Analysis of Aristophanes  Carina de Klerk 8 Strong Household, Strong City: Space and Politics in Aristophanes’ Acharnians  Nina Papathanasopoulou 9 Aristophanes’ Birds as Satire on Athenian Opportunists in Thrace  Edith Hall 10 The Politics of Dissensus in Aristophanes’ Birds  Mario Telò 11 Inscribing Athenians: the Alphabetic Chorus in Aristophanes’ Babylonians and the Politics and Aesthetics of Inscription and Conscription in Fifth-Century Athens  Deborah Steiner 12 Afterword: the Boy from Cydathenaeum Some Concluding Reflections  Paul Cartledge Index
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"Thankfully, these dozen essays transcend the tired questions (from the late 18th-century onward) of “Aristophanes’ politics” that subjected the playwright to the historical equivalent of Gallup polling. Provocative and nuanced, most of them succeed in showing, by contrast, how the dramatist embodies and enacts a public role: Aristophanes <i>is</i> politics." - Richard Martin, in: <i>BMCR</i> 2021.04.36<br />
"This is a stimulating and thought-provoking volume for whoever wants to have a dialogue with up-to-date research on the topic." - Mariana Franco San Roman, in: <i>The Classical Review</i> 71.2 311–313
''No seu todo, há que louvar a coerência do volume e a articulação entre as diversas contribuições, suscitando por vezes interessantes – e como que involuntárias – divergências, internas ao próprio conjunto. Além disso, algumas das colaborações apostam manifestamente em perspetivas e
interpretações inovadoras sobretudo quando estão em causa peças concretas. A leitura deste estudo criativo e inovador sobre uma matéria que necessita, em função da própria evolução da experiência social humana, de uma constante revisão, é certamente da maior valia para todos os que se rendem ao encanto das comédias de Aristófanes.'' Maria de Fátima Silva in <i>Cadmo</i> 2021.

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.
Read more
This book presents a collection of new studies on the political aspects of Aristophanes’ comic plays, produced in Athens in the latter half of the 5th century BCE.
Introduction  Helene P. Foley and Ralph M. Rosen 1 Prolegomena: Accessing and Understanding Aristophanic Politics  Ralph M. Rosen 2 Politics and Laughter: the Case of Aristophanes’ Knights  Robin Osborne 3 Patterns of Avoidance and Indirection in Athenian Political Satire  Jeffrey Henderson 4 Conservative and Radical: Aristophanic Comedy and Populist Debate in Democratic Athens  I. A. Ruffell 5 Aristophanes’ Political Comedies and (Bad?) Imitations  Olimpia Imperio 6 Politics in the Street: Some Citizen Encounters in Aristophanes  Stephen Halliwell 7 The Politics of Diversity: a Quantitative Analysis of Aristophanes  Carina de Klerk 8 Strong Household, Strong City: Space and Politics in Aristophanes’ Acharnians  Nina Papathanasopoulou 9 Aristophanes’ Birds as Satire on Athenian Opportunists in Thrace  Edith Hall 10 The Politics of Dissensus in Aristophanes’ Birds  Mario Telò 11 Inscribing Athenians: the Alphabetic Chorus in Aristophanes’ Babylonians and the Politics and Aesthetics of Inscription and Conscription in Fifth-Century Athens  Deborah Steiner 12 Afterword: the Boy from Cydathenaeum Some Concluding Reflections  Paul Cartledge Index
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Product details

ISBN
9789004424456
Published
2020
Publisher
Brill; Brill
Weight
566 gr
Height
235 mm
Width
155 mm
Thickness
23 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Edited by
Rosen Ralph M.
Foley, Helene P.

Biographical note

Ralph M. Rosen, Ph.D. (1983), Harvard University, is Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities and Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published broadly on Greek and Roman literature and culture, with a focus on ancient comedy and satire, comparative poetics, Greek intellectual history and ancient medicine.
Helene P. Foley, Ph.D. (1975), Harvard University, Claire Tow Professor of Classics at Barnard College, Columbia University has published books and articles on Greek epic and drama, on women and gender in Antiquity, and on modern performance and adaptation of Greek drama.

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