Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae
Philosophizing Theatre and the Politics of Perception in Late Fifth-Century Athens
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19913334 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ashley Clements (0000-0002-3848-1802, Trinity College Dublin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-24 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9781139629386 |
| OpenAlex | W4214610962 |
| Open Library | OL34556431M |
| ISBN | 9781139629386 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
Aristophanes' comic masterpiece Thesmophoriazusae has long been recognized amongst the plays of Old Comedy for its deconstruction of tragic theatricality. This book reveals that this deconstruction is grounded not simply in Aristophanes' wider engagement with tragic realism. Rather, it demonstrates that from its outset Aristophanes' play draws upon Parmenides' philosophical revelations concerning reality and illusion, employing Eleatic strictures and imagery to philosophize the theatrical situation, criticize Aristophanes' poetic rival Euripides as promulgator of harmful deceptions, expose the dangerous complicity of Athenian theatre audiences in tragic illusion, and articulate political advice to an audience negotiating a period of political turmoil characterized by deception and uncertainty (the months before the oligarchic coup of 411 BC). The book thereby restores Thesmophoriazusae to its proper status as a philosophical comedy and reveals hitherto unrecognized evidence of Aristophanes' political use of Eleatic ideas during the late fifth century BC
Aesthetics · Art · Comedy · Comics · Complicity · Deception · Illusion · Literature · Mirroring · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Realism · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Classical philology
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The Place and Nature of Memory in Greek Historiography
The Greek Philosophers on How to Memorise – and Learn
Aristophanes and his Muses, or Memory in a Comic Key
Plotinus
Hellenistic Cultural Memory
All the World’s a Stage
Claudius Aelianus
Is Memory of the Past?
Speaking in the Wax Tablets of Memory
Polis as Kosmos in Plato’s Laws
Aristotle on Kosmos and Kosmoi
Ordering the Universe in Speech
Cosmos in the Ancient World
Cosmic Choruses
Poetics, Perversions, and Passing
Greek Memories
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2020 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |