Aristophanes the Democrat

The Politics of Satirical Comedy during the Peloponnesian War

Nonfiction, History, Ancient History, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
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Author: Keith Sidwell ISBN: 9780511700378
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: October 22, 2009
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Keith Sidwell
ISBN: 9780511700378
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: October 22, 2009
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

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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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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