Aristophanes and the Poetics of Competition

Informationen zum Autor Zachary P. Biles is Assistant Professor of Classics at Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania, USA. Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, Washington DC (2004–5), and Professor at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, Rome (2003–4), he was awarded the Basil Gildersleeve Prize from the American Journal of Philology and Johns Hopkins University Press in 2003. Klappentext This book demonstrates how the competitive context in which Athenian comic drama was performed shaped the poetry and plots of Aristophanes' plays. Zusammenfassung Athenian comedy was written for performance in competitions at religious festivals. This book applies traditional philological techniques to five of Aristophanes' plays in order to demonstrate how that competitive context shaped his poetry and plots! as he sought to engage his rivals and impress the audience in order to win. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Dedication; Abbreviations; Proagon; 1. From Thamyris to Aristophanes: the competitive poetics of the comic parabasis; 2. The competitive partnership of Aristophanes and Dikaiopolis in Acharnians; 3. Aristophanes' poetic tropaion: competitive didaskalia and contest records in Knights; 4. Intertextual biography in the rivalry of Cratinus and Aristophanes; 5. Aristophanes' Clouds-palinode; 6. Dionysos and dionysia in Frogs; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Zachary P. Biles, Zachary P. (Franklin and Marshall College Biles, Biles Zachary P.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.01.2011
• EAN: 9780521764070
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76407-0
• No. of pages: 302
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval