Aristophanes and the Comic Hero |
Contents
CRITICISM AND OLD COMEDY | 1 |
COMIC HEROISM | 21 |
CITY AND INDIVIDUAL | 59 |
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absurdity Acharnians Aeacus Aeschylus agon animal Archilochus Aris Aristophanean Aristophanes Athenian Athens Bdelycleon become Birds character chorus Cleon Cleonymus clever Clouds comic hero Cratinus Croiset dance Demos Dicaeopolis Dionysus divine dramatic dung beetle earlier Eleusinian Euelpides Eupolis Euripides fact fantasy father figure Frag Frogs gods Gorgias Greece Greek grotesque Heracles Hermes hero's heroic Hoopoe human imagery impostors individual invention Karaghiozes kind Knights Lamachus least lyrical Lysistrata meaning metaphor Mnesilochus moral motif nature nonsense Old Comedy oracle parabasis parody passage Peace Peithetaerus perhaps Pheidippides Pherecrates Philocleon play plot poet poetic poetry political poneria reality represent rhetoric role satire Sausage Seller says scene seems slave Socrates song Spartans speech spirit Strepsiades structure symbol theme theory Thesm Thesmophoriazusae things tio tio tion tophanes tradition tragedy tragic transcendent transformed true Trygaeus victory Wasps whole wings word Xanthias Zeus