Keith Sidwell

Biographic Data

ID5626003
NAMEKeith Sidwell
GIVEN NAMESKeith
FAMILY NAMESidwell
SIGNATURESIDWELL K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Calgary
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS24
WORKS AS AUTHOR17
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX2

  • Reading Latin

    Peter M Jones, Keith Sidwell et al.BOOKReading Latin2018

  • Fourth-century comedy before Menander

    Open AccessKeith SidwellCHAPTERCambridge Companion to Greek Comedy2014

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

    Open AccessZachary P Biles, David Konstan et al.BOOKCambridge Companion to Greek Comedy2014

    Greek comedy flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, both in and beyond Athens. Aristophanes and Menander are the best-known writers whose work is in part extant, but many other dramatists are known from surviving fragments of their plays. This sophisticated but accessible introduction explores the genre as a whole, integrating literary questions (such as characterisation, dramatic technique or diction) with contextual ones (for example …

  • “Letting It All Hang Out”

    Keith SidwellCHAPTERAncient Comedy and Reception2013

  • Acharnians

    Keith SidwellCHAPTERAristophanes the Democrat2010

    We are now in a better position to deal with two serious difficulties related to the parabasis of Acharnians . Who is the poet represented? Is it Aristophanes or is it someone else, the same poet, perhaps, who had been the cover for Banqueters ( Clouds 530–1)? And, whichever of these it is, how could the audience cope with the disjunction proposed by Bowie 1988 and supported by my analysis in chapter three above between the parabatic poet and the…

  • Metacomedy and politics

    Keith SidwellCHAPTERAristophanes the Democrat2010

    INTRODUCTION The analysis of the Clouds parabasis offered in the previous chapter delineates a politicised comedy, which Aristophanes treats as deeply polarised both on the level of the targets chosen, and of dramatic technique. If it is correct to see the critique of comic motifs as part and parcel of this ideological battle, then it is possible to utilise the so-called self-contradictions between such critiques and Aristophanes' own use of them…

  • Metacomedy and caricature in the surviving fourth-century plays of Aristophanes

    Keith SidwellCHAPTERAristophanes the Democrat2010

    Aristophanes continued writing for some twenty years after the success of Frogs . His last two extant plays are Ecclesiazusai (late 390s) and Wealth (388), the second of that name, the first having been produced in 409/8 (Σ Wealth 179). Despite the lack of many of their choral lyrics (the position of which is marked in the mss by the legend ΧΟΡΟΥ), the plays conform in the essential aspects of their plots to the format of his earlier plays. They …

  • Getting to grips with the politics of Old Comedy

    Keith SidwellCHAPTERAristophanes the Democrat2010

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  • Aristophanes the Democrat

    Open AccessKeith SidwellBOOKAristophanes the Democrat2009

    This book provides a new interpretation of the nature of Old Comedy and its place at the heart of Athenian democratic politics. Professor Sidwell argues that Aristophanes and his rivals belonged to opposing political groups, each with their own political agenda. Through disguised caricature and parody of their rivals' work, the poets expressed and fuelled the political conflict between their factions. Professor Sidwell rereads the principal texts…

  • Old Comedy

    Keith Sidwell, Ian C StoreyARTICLEClassics Ireland2005

  • The Symposium and Komos in Aristophanes

    Keith Sidwell, B PutzARTICLEClassics Ireland2004

  • The Roman Theatre and Its Audience

    Keith Sidwell, Richard C Beacham et al.ARTICLEClassics Ireland1998

  • "The Politics of Aeschylus' "Eumenides

    Keith SidwellARTICLEClassics Ireland1996

  • Purification and pollution in Aeschylus' Eumenides

    Open AccessKeith SidwellARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1996Cited by: 5References: 6

    ‘The issues surrounding Orestes’ purification are some of the most difficult in all of Aeschylus’ wrote A. L. Brown in 1982. Despite the appearance since then of an overall treatment of pollution and three editions of the play, there continue to be disagreements about the matter. In this paper I suggest that we may be better able to understand the treatment of purification if we focus on the importance of Orestes’ pollution to the particular vers…

  • Reading Medieval Latin

    Open AccessKeith SidwellBOOKReading Medieval Latin1995

    Reading Medieval Latin is an introduction to medieval Latin in its cultural and historical context and is designed to serve the needs of students who have completed the learning of basic classical Latin morphology and syntax. (Users of Reading Latin will find that it follows on after the end of section 5 of that course.) It is an anthology, organised chronologically and thematically in four parts. Each part is divided into chapters with introduct…

  • Poetic Rivalry and the Caricature of Comic Poets

    Open AccessKeith SidwellARTICLEBulletin of the Institute of…1995Cited by: 19

    Journal Article Poetic Rivalry and the Caricature of Comic Poets: Cratinus' Pytine and Aristophanes' Wasps Get access Keith Sidwell Keith Sidwell King's College, London and St Patrick's College, Maynooth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 40, Issue Supplement_66, July 1995, Pages 56–80, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1995.tb02180.x Published: 22 Febr…

  • Lucian

    Leonard P Wencis, Keith SidwellARTICLEThe Classical World1988