John Lombardini
Biographic Data
| ID | 1056771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Lombardini |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Lombardini |
| SIGNATURE | LOMBARDINI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | William & Mary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0674-4452 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Philosophy, Poetry, and Power in Aristophanes’s Birds, written by Daniel Holmes
Comic Democracies: From Ancient Athens to the American Republic by Angus Fletcher
In Comic Democracies, Fletcher offers a sweeping account of the comic form and its potential affinities with democracy. He argues that we ought to view democracy not as the best system of government for promoting the principles of justice, equality, and liberty but as the one with the kind of pluralism, pragmatism, and empiricism that make it a more sensible and effective form of government than its alternatives. Having set out this account of de…
Responding to Emergency in Democratic Athens: The Case of Anti-Tyranny Legislation
This article attempts to understand Athenian anti-tyranny laws as offering a democratic response to emergency. These laws sought to promote the killing of “tyrants” who overthrew the democracy and to punish those who collaborated with any non-democratic regime. I argue that the anti-tyranny laws reflect a broader series of measures enacted in the aftermath of the oligarchic coup of 411 BCE that sought to facilitate the collective action of the dē…
Civic Laughter: Aristotle and the Political Virtue of Humor
While the loss of the second book of the Poetics has deprived us of Aristotle’s most extensive account of laughter and comedy, his discussion of eutrapelia (wittiness) as a virtue in his ethical works and in the Rhetoric points toward the importance of humor for his ethical and political thought. This article offers a reconstruction of Aristotle’s account of wittiness and attempts to explain how the virtue of wittiness would animate the everyday …
The politics of sincerity: Plato, frank speech and democratic judgment by Elizabeth Markovits
Comic Authority in Aristophanes’ Knights
This article investigates the relationship between comic speech and political authority in democratic Athens through a reading of Aristophanes’ Knights. The article surveys three different interpretations of how Aristophanes constructs the authority of his comic persona in the play: (1) he contrasts comic speech with rhetorical speech to illustrate the superiority of the former (comic superiority); (2) he reflexively reveals to the audience the p…
Civic Laughter: Aristotle and the Political Virtue of Humor
While the loss of the second book of the Poetics has deprived us of Aristotle’s most extensive account of laughter and comedy, his discussion of eutrapelia (wittiness) as a virtue in his ethical works and in the Rhetoric points toward the importance of humor for his ethical and political thought. This article offers a reconstruction of Aristotle’s account of wittiness and attempts to explain how the virtue of wittiness would animate the everyday …
Comic Authority in Aristophanes’ Knights
This article investigates the relationship between comic speech and political authority in democratic Athens through a reading of Aristophanes’ Knights. The article surveys three different interpretations of how Aristophanes constructs the authority of his comic persona in the play: (1) he contrasts comic speech with rhetorical speech to illustrate the superiority of the former (comic superiority); (2) he reflexively reveals to the audience the p…
Comic Authority in Aristophanes’ Knights
This article investigates the relationship between comic speech and political authority in democratic Athens through a reading of Aristophanes’ Knights. The article surveys three different interpretations of how Aristophanes constructs the authority of his comic persona in the play: (1) he contrasts comic speech with rhetorical speech to illustrate the superiority of the former (comic superiority); (2) he reflexively reveals to the audience the p…
Civic Laughter: Aristotle and the Political Virtue of Humor
While the loss of the second book of the Poetics has deprived us of Aristotle’s most extensive account of laughter and comedy, his discussion of eutrapelia (wittiness) as a virtue in his ethical works and in the Rhetoric points toward the importance of humor for his ethical and political thought. This article offers a reconstruction of Aristotle’s account of wittiness and attempts to explain how the virtue of wittiness would animate the everyday …
The politics of sincerity: Plato, frank speech and democratic judgment by Elizabeth Markovits
Responding to Emergency in Democratic Athens: The Case of Anti-Tyranny Legislation
This article attempts to understand Athenian anti-tyranny laws as offering a democratic response to emergency. These laws sought to promote the killing of “tyrants” who overthrew the democracy and to punish those who collaborated with any non-democratic regime. I argue that the anti-tyranny laws reflect a broader series of measures enacted in the aftermath of the oligarchic coup of 411 BCE that sought to facilitate the collective action of the dē…
Comic Democracies: From Ancient Athens to the American Republic by Angus Fletcher
In Comic Democracies, Fletcher offers a sweeping account of the comic form and its potential affinities with democracy. He argues that we ought to view democracy not as the best system of government for promoting the principles of justice, equality, and liberty but as the one with the kind of pluralism, pragmatism, and empiricism that make it a more sensible and effective form of government than its alternatives. Having set out this account of de…
Philosophy, Poetry, and Power in Aristophanes’s Birds, written by Daniel Holmes
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