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Aristophanes and the Poetics of Competition

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Cambridge University Press, Jan 27, 2011 - History - 290 pages
"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"--
  

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Contents

Introduction proagon
1
Chapter 1 From Thamyris to Aristophanes
12
Chapter 2 The competitive partnership of Aristophanes and Dikaiopolis in Acharnians
56
Chapter 3 Aristophanes poetic tropaion
97
Chapter 4 Intertextual biography in the rivalry of Cratinus and Aristophanes1
134
Chapter 5 Aristophanes Cloudspalinode
167
Chapter 6 Dionysos and Dionysia in Frogs
211
Bibliography
257
General index
280
Index of passages
285
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About the author (2011)

ZACHARY P. BILES is Associate Professor of Classics at Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania.

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