Aristophanes the Democrat

The Politics of Satirical Comedy during the Peloponnesian War

By: Keith Sidwell

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Hardcover | 22 October 2009

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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.

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Detail of illustration	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xii
List of abbreviations	p. xiv
Setting The Stage	p. 1
Getting to grips with the politics of Old Comedy	p. 3
Metacomedy and politics	p. 31
Metacomedy and caricature	p. 45
The Poets' War	p. 105
Acharnians: Parabasis versus play	p. 107
Metacomedy, caricature and politics from Knights to Peace	p. 155
Metacomedy, caricature and politics from Autolycus to Frogs	p. 217
Conclusions and consequences	p. 299
Appendices	p. 303
The view from the theatron	p. 305
Metacomedy and caricature in the surviving fourth-century plays of Aristophanes	p. 337
Timeline and proposed relationships between comedies	p. 341
The date of Eupolis' Taxiarchoi	p. 346
Clouds 868-73 and	p. 349
Michael VickerS on Strepsiades and Pericles	p. 350
Bibliography	p. 352
Index	p. 363
Index Locorum	p. 382
Index of Modern Scholars	p. 406
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The Politics of Satirical Comedy during the Peloponnesian War

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