Concocting Justice
Dicaeopolis the Cook-Comedian
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21539433 |
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| Authors | David Christenson (0009-0005-6867-1235, University of Arizona, [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 265-286 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Illinois Classical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0363-1923 • E-ISSN: 2328-5265 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5406/illiclasstud.45.2.0265 |
| OpenAlex | W4210749805 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
Discussion of costume in Acharnians has focused on Dicaeopolis’s appropriation of Telephus’s rags and violent un-costuming of Lamachus. No less metacomically significant is Dicaeopolis’s persona as a mageiros, made explicit by props rather than a costume-change when he eventually cooks onstage. The chiton- and phallus-wearing protagonist in fact throughout Acharnians assumes the persona of a cook-comedian, whose ultimate triumph is marked by his festively donning a himation. The metapoetics of cooking largely figure Acharnians’ melding of Aristophanes and Dicaeopolis, as the latter promotes τρυγῳδία as an innovative blend of comedy deserving a serious hearing and victory at the festival
Appropriation · Art · Comedy · Economic Justice · Humanities · Linguistics · Literature · Persona · Political science · Politics · Victory · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Law · Philosophy
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The Loaded Table
Aristophanes' Acharnians
Persius and the Programmatic Satire
Performing Greek Comedy
Aristophanes and the Poetics of Competition
Aristophanic Poetry
Aspects of « Public Representation » in Aristophanes' Acharnions
The Costumes of Old and Middle Comedy
Aristophanes and Tragic Lamentation
Women and the Language of Food in the Plays of Aristophanes
Mageiros. Die Rolle des Kochs in der griechisch-römischen Komödie
Notes On Aristophanes' Acharnians
Acharnians 1095–1142
Tragedy and Trugedy
Cratinus and the Art of Comedy
Two Complementary Festivals in Aristophanes' Acharnians
Aristophanes and the Comic Hero
Aristophanes
Intertextual Biography in the Rivalry of Cratinus and Aristophanes
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