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Aristophanes and politics :...
The essays in this volume explore the many aspects of the "political" in the plays of Greek comic dramatist Aristophanes (5th century BCE), posing a variety of questions and approaching them through diverse methodological lenses. They demonstrate that "politics" as reflected in Aristophanes' plays remains a fertile, and even urgent, area of inquiry, as political developments in our own time distinctly color the ways in which we articulate questions about classical Athens. As this volume shows, the earlier scholarship on politics in (or "and(3y)(B Aristophanes, which tended to focus on determining Aristophanes' "actual" political views, has by now given way to approaches far more sensitive to how comic literary texts work and more attentive to the complexities of Athenian political structures and social dynamics. All the studies in this volume grapple to varying degrees with such methodological tensions, and show, that the richer and more diverse our political readings of Aristophanes can become, the less stable and consistent, as befits a comic work, they appear to be
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monografia Rebiun26001118 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun26001118 m o d | cr#un####uuuua 200804s2020 ne o 000 0 eng d 90-04-42446-6 10.1163/9789004424463 DOI UPVA 998145863603706 UAM 991008285434504211 CBUC 991013149260906708 CBUC 991010882357606709 CBUC 991001019169906712 UPCT u585552 MiAaPQ eng rda pn MiAaPQ MiAaPQ Aristophanes and politics new studies edited by Ralph M. Rosen, Helene P. Foley Leiden, The Netherlands Boston Brill [2020] Leiden, The Netherlands Boston Leiden, The Netherlands Boston Brill 2020 1 online resource 1 online resource Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 45 The essays in this volume explore the many aspects of the "political" in the plays of Greek comic dramatist Aristophanes (5th century BCE), posing a variety of questions and approaching them through diverse methodological lenses. They demonstrate that "politics" as reflected in Aristophanes' plays remains a fertile, and even urgent, area of inquiry, as political developments in our own time distinctly color the ways in which we articulate questions about classical Athens. As this volume shows, the earlier scholarship on politics in (or "and(3y)(B Aristophanes, which tended to focus on determining Aristophanes' "actual" political views, has by now given way to approaches far more sensitive to how comic literary texts work and more attentive to the complexities of Athenian political structures and social dynamics. All the studies in this volume grapple to varying degrees with such methodological tensions, and show, that the richer and more diverse our political readings of Aristophanes can become, the less stable and consistent, as befits a comic work, they appear to be Rosen, Ralph Mark editor Foley, Helene P. 1942-) editor 90-04-42445-8 Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 45