The comedies of Aristophanes: Lysistrata. The thesmophoriazusae
Author : Aristophanes
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Page : 586 pages
File Size : 50,78 MB
Release : 1911
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Author : Aristophanes
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Page : 586 pages
File Size : 50,78 MB
Release : 1911
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Author : Aristophanes
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File Size : 50,59 MB
Release : 1910
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Author : Aristophanes
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Lysistrata (Fictitious character)
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Author : Aristophanes
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Page : 586 pages
File Size : 50,66 MB
Release : 1911
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Author : Aristophanes
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Page : 292 pages
File Size : 26,18 MB
Release : 1904
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Author : Aristophanes
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Page : 588 pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 1911
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Author : Aristophanes
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Page : 594 pages
File Size : 36,36 MB
Release : 1911
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Author : Froma I. Zeitlin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226979229
Zeitlin explores the diversity and complexity of these interactions through the most influential literary texts of the archaic and classical periods, from epic (Homer) and didactic poetry (Hesiod) to the productions of tragedy and comedy in fifth-century Athens.
Author : Helene P. Foley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1400824737
Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides often represent them as influential social and moral forces in their own right. Scholars have struggled to explain this seeming contradiction. Helene Foley shows how Greek tragedy uses gender relations to explore specific issues in the development of the social, political, and intellectual life in the polis. She investigates three central and problematic areas in which tragic heroines act independently of men: death ritual and lamentation, marriage, and the making of significant ethical choices. Her anthropological approach, together with her literary analysis, allows for an unusually rich context in which to understand gender relations in ancient Greece. This book examines, for example, the tragic response to legislation regulating family life that may have begun as early as the sixth century. It also draws upon contemporary studies of virtue ethics and upon feminist reconsiderations of the Western ethical tradition. Foley maintains that by viewing public issues through the lens of the family, tragedy asks whether public and private morality can operate on the same terms. Moreover, the plays use women to represent significant moral alternatives. Tragedy thus exploits, reinforces, and questions cultural clichés about women and gender in a fashion that resonates with contemporary Athenian social and political issues.
Author : Mario Telò
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 11,13 MB
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 022630972X
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.