LEADER 04127nam 2200637 450 001 9910820381303321 005 20210504021952.0 010 $a3-11-042791-5 010 $a3-11-042795-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110427912 035 $a(CKB)3710000000495666 035 $a(EBL)4006844 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001568833 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16219068 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001568833 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14807565 035 $a(PQKB)11181163 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4006844 035 $a(DE-B1597)452102 035 $a(OCoLC)928462715 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110427912 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4006844 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11101751 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL838154 035 $a(OCoLC)927490456 035 $a(PPN)189630965 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000495666 100 $a20151116h20152015 uy d 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnnu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAristophanes and Alcibiades $eechoes of contemporary history in Athenian comedy /$fMichael Vickers 210 1$aBerlin, [Germany] ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cDe Gruyter,$d2015. 210 4$d©2015 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-057822-0 311 $a3-11-043753-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAbbreviations --$tChapter 1. Political Allegory in Aristophanes --$tChapter 2. Wordplay; Pericles, Alcibiades and Aspasia on Stage --$tChapter 3. Pericles (and Alcibiades) on Stage: The Story So Far --$tChapter 4. The Tragic Context: the Case of Euripides? Ion --$tChapter 5. Happy Families: Plutus i --$tChapter 6. Home Economics: Plutus ii --$tChapter 7. ?The Woman of Old?: Euripides? Helen and Andromeda --$tChapter 8. ?Alcibiades is a Woman?s Man?: Lysistrata --$tChapter 9. Alcibiades in Gaol: Thesmophoriazusae --$tChapter 10. Frogs: Nothing to Do With Literature --$tChapter 11. Aspasia on Stage: Ecclesiazusae --$tConclusion --$tAppendix 1 Alcibiades? ?Servile Birth?, Alcibiades? ?Matrophilia?: Inventions of the Stage? --$tAppendix 2. The Athenian Plague of 430?428 BC --$tAppendix 3. Keith Sidwell?s Aristophanes the Democrat --$tBibliography --$tIndex Locorum --$tGeneral Index 330 $aThe conventional view of Aristophanes bristles with problems. Important testimony for Alcibiades? paramount role in comedy is consistently disregarded, and the tradition that ?masks were made to look like the komodoumenoi, so that before an actor spoke a word, the audience would recognize who was being attacked? is hardly ever invoked. If these testimonia are taken into account, a fascinating picture emerges, where the komodoumenoi are based on the Periclean household: older characters on Pericles himself, younger on Alcibiades. Aspasia, Pericles? mistress, and Hipparete, Alcibiades? wife, lie behind many female characters, and Alcibiades? ambiguous sexuality also allows him to be shown on the stage as a woman, notably as Lysistrata. There is a substantial overlap between the anecdotal tradition relating to the historical figures and the plotting of Aristophanes? plays. This extends to speech patterns, where Alcibiades? speech defect is lampooned. Aristophanes is consistently critical of Alcibiades? mercurial politics, and his works can also be seen to have served as an aide-mémoire for Thucydides and Xenophon. If the argument presented here is correct, then much current scholarship on Aristophanes can be set aside. 606 $aPolitics in literature 606 $aGreek drama (Comedy)$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aPolitics in literature. 615 0$aGreek drama (Comedy)$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a882.01 700 $aVickers$b Michael J.$0157707 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820381303321 996 $aAristophanes and Alcibiades$9255856 997 $aUNINA