Aristophanes

Myth, Ritual and Comedy

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Hardcover | 29 November 1993

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This book places the plays of Aristophanes in their contemporary context, asking what aspects of Greek, and especially Athenian, culture these comedies brought into play for their original audiences. It makes particular use of the structural analysis of Greek rituals and myths to demonstrate how their meanings and functions can be used to interpret the plays. This information is then used to suggest ways in which twentieth-century audiences may read the plays in terms of contemporary literary theories and concerns. This is the first book to apply the techniques of structural anthropology systematically to all the comedies. It does not impose a single interpretative structure on the plays but argues that each play operates with a range of different structures, and that groups of plays use similar structures in different ways. All Greek is translated.

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"Bowie's book is a refreshing examination of Aristophanes's use of myth and ritual." Martha Habash, Classical Journal "...the reader will find a wealth of information and detail about ancient rites and festivals, and there are not few places where one's reading of an Aristophanic comedy will be enlarged and enlightened by the material that Bowie adduces." Classical Views

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Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction	p. 1
Acharnians	p. 18
The 'Unjust' and 'Just' Cities	p. 18
Telephus	p. 27
Another view of Dicaeopolis	p. 32
The Anthesteria	p. 35
Polis and deme	p. 39
Knights	p. 45
Rites of passage	p. 45
Knights and ephebeia	p. 52
Knights and the succession	p. 58
Knights and Athens	p. 66
Sausage-Seller and salvation	p. 74
Wasps	p. 78
Wasps and transition	p. 78
Philocleon's agones	p. 81
Philocleon redivivus	p. 93
Implications	p. 96
Clouds	p. 102
Strepsiades' ephebeia	p. 102
Socrates goes	p. 112
The Cloud-Chorus	p. 124
Morality and humour	p. 130
Peace	p. 134
Dung-Beetle	p. 134
Hermes	p. 138
The return of Peace	p. 142
Birds	p. 151
Birds and foundation-mythology	p. 152
Fantasy and Utopia?	p. 166
Lysistrata	p. 178
Women in Athens	p. 178
Preliminaries	p. 181
The women	p. 184
The men	p. 199
Reconciliation	p. 201
Thesmophoriazusae	p. 205
Thesmophoriazusae and Thesmophoria	p. 205
Thesmophoria and Euripidean tragedy	p. 217
Frogs	p. 228
Frogs and Eleusis?	p. 228
Orpheus, Dionysus and Eleusis	p. 230
Frogs and Mysteries	p. 234
Frogs and politics	p. 238
Mysteries and poetic agon	p. 344
Ecclesiazusae	p. 254
Plutus	p. 268
Economic and social circumstances	p. 268
Plutus	p. 269
Charis	p. 273
Plutus, Asclepius, Prometheus, Hermes	p. 278
Wealth versus Poverty	p. 284
Conclusion	p. 292
Bibliography	p. 294
Index	p. 317
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