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his original and wide-ranging collection of essays offers, for the first time, a comprehensive examination of the political dimensions of that madcap comic poet Aristophanes. Rejecting the claim that Aristophanes is little more than a mere comedian, the contributors to this fascinating volume demonstrate that Aristophanes deserves to be placed in the ranks of the greatest Greek political thinkers. As these essays reveal, all of Aristophanes' plays treat issues of fundamental political importance, from war and peace, poverty and wealth, the relation between the sexes, demagoguery and democracy to the role of philosophy and poetry in political society. Accessible to students as well as scholars, "The Political Theory of Aristophanes" can be utilized easily in the classroom, but at the same time serve as a valuable source for those conducting more advanced research. Whether the field is political philosophy, classical studies, history, or literary criticism, this work will make it necessary to reconceptualize how we understand this great Athenian poet and force us to recognize the political ramifications and underpinnings of his uproarious comedies.

Aristophanes --- Aristofan --- Arystofanes --- Aristophane --- Aristofane --- Arisutopanesu --- Arisutofanesu --- Aristófanes --- Aristophanes Comicus --- אריסטופאנוס --- אריסטופאנס --- אריסטופאנס. כספי זיוה --- אריסטופניס --- אריסטופנס --- Ἀριστοφάνης --- Criticism and interpretation.

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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 master of Old Attic Comedy, a dramatic genre defined by its topical satire, high poetry, frank speech, and obscenity. Since their initial production in classical Athens, his comedies have fascinated, inspired, and repelled critics, readers, translators, and performers. The book includes seventeen chapters that explore the ways in which the plays of Aristophanes have been understood, appropriated, adapted, translated, taught, and staged. Careful attention has been given to critical moments of reception across temporal, linguistic, cultural, and national boundaries.

Art appreciation. --- Komödie. --- Rezeption. --- Aristophane - réception. --- Aristophane, --- Aristophane. --- Aristophanes --- Aristophanes, --- Aristophanes. --- Critique et interprétation. --- Appreciation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Comparative literature --- Aristophanes [Comicus] --- Aristofan --- Arystofanes --- Aristophane --- Aristofane --- Arisutopanesu --- Arisutofanesu --- Aristófanes --- Aristophanes Comicus --- אריסטופאנוס --- אריסטופאנס --- אריסטופאנס. כספי זיוה --- אריסטופניס --- אריסטופנס --- Ἀριστοφάνης

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"Athenian comic drama was written for performance at festivals honouring the god Dionysos. Through dramatic action and open discourse, poets sought to engage their rivals and impress the audience, all in an effort to obtain victory in the competitions. This book uses that competitive performance context as an interpretive framework within which to understand the thematic interests shaping the plots and poetic quality of Aristophanes' plays in particular, and of Old Comedy in general. Studying five individual plays from the Aristophanic corpus as well as fragments of other comic poets, it reveals the competitive poetics distinctive to each. It also traces thematic connections with other poetic traditions, especially epic, lyric, and tragedy, and thereby seeks to place competitive poetics within broader trends in Greek literature"--

Greek drama (Comedy) --- Aristophanes [Comicus] --- History and criticism --- Aristophanes --- Criticism and interpretation --- History and criticism. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Greek drama (Comedy) - History and criticism --- Aristophanes - Criticism and interpretation --- Aristofan --- Arystofanes --- Aristophane --- Aristofane --- Arisutopanesu --- Arisutofanesu --- Aristófanes --- Aristophanes Comicus --- אריסטופאנוס --- אריסטופאנס --- אריסטופאנס. כספי זיוה --- אריסטופניס --- אריסטופנס --- Ἀριστοφάνης

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Despite the many studies of Greek comedy and tragedy separately, scholarship has generally neglected the relation of the two. And yet the genres developed together, were performed together, and influenced each other to the extent of becoming polar opposites. In Aristophanes and His Tragic Muse , Stephanie Nelson considers this opposition through an analysis of how the genres developed, by looking at the tragic and comic elements in satyr drama, and by contrasting specific Aristophanes plays with tragedies on similar themes, such as the individual, the polis, and the gods. The study reveals that tragedy’s focus on necessity and a quest for meaning complements a neglected but critical element in Athenian comedy: its interest in freedom, and the ambivalence of its incompatible visions of reality.

Aristophanes [Comicus] --- Greek drama --- Théâtre grec --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Aristophanes --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Athens (Greece) --- Athènes (Grèce) --- In literature --- Dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- Criticism and interpretation --- Théâtre grec --- Athènes (Grèce) --- Dans la littérature --- In literature. --- Aristofan --- Arystofanes --- Aristophane --- Aristofane --- Arisutopanesu --- Arisutofanesu --- Aristófanes --- Aristophanes Comicus --- אריסטופאנוס --- אריסטופאנס --- אריסטופאנס. כספי זיוה --- אריסטופניס --- אריסטופנס --- Ἀριστοφάνης --- Greek drama - History and criticism --- Aristophanes - Criticism and interpretation

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An assessment of the power of argument and its effects as used within Aristophanes' play. This treatise attempts to provide insight into ancient Athenian thought and at the same time to examine the workings of a play which balances rhetoric with comedy.

Comedy. --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Violence in literature. --- Classical Greek literature --- Thematology --- Literary rhetorics --- Aristophanes [Comicus] --- Comedy --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- Violence in literature --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Comic literature --- Literature, Comic --- Drama --- Wit and humor --- Rhetoric --- Aristophanes --- -Technique --- Ancient rhetoric --- Aristophanes. --- Aristofan --- Arystofanes --- Aristophane --- Aristofane --- Arisutopanesu --- Arisutofanesu --- Aristófanes --- אריסטופאנוס --- אריסטופאנס --- אריסטופאנס. כספי זיוה --- אריסטופניס --- אריסטופנס --- Ἀριστοφάνης --- Technique. --- Aristophanes Comicus