Aristophanes and the Poetics of Competition
- Author: Zachary P. Biles, Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania
- Date Published: May 2011
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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.
Read more- English translations of all Greek passages, allowing access to a wider readership
- Abundant evidence outside of Aristophanes, places discussion in a broader literary framework that will appeal not just to Aristophanes specialists
- Includes topic and passage indices, full bibliography and abundant footnoting, all of which provides researchers with more immediate access to specific discussions in the study and likewise directs readers to relevant current and older bibliography
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'… this book is a thoroughly researched, imaginative and engaging piece of scholarship which deserves a prominent place in Aristophanic studies.' Emmanuela Bakola, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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- Date Published: May 2011
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781139065184
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Abbreviations
Proagon
1. From Thamyris to Aristophanes: the competitive poetics of the comic parabasis
2. The competitive partnership of Aristophanes and Dikaiopolis in Acharnians
3. Aristophanes' poetic tropaion: competitive didaskalia and contest records in Knights
4. Intertextual biography in the rivalry of Cratinus and Aristophanes
5. Aristophanes' Clouds-palinode
6. Dionysos and dionysia in Frogs
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