Kleophon and the restaging of Frogs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23723391 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan H Sommerstein (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Pages | 254-269 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Talking about laughter and other studies in Greek comedy (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554195.003.0014 |
| OpenAlex | W2495803750 |
| ISBN | 9780199554195 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
In this chapter it is argued that ancient notices about honours given to Aristophanes for his advice in the parabasis of Frogs are shown by their language to be based on an authentic state decree; that this decree was probably passed in late 405 bc, and the play restaged at the Lenaia of 404; and that such timing would fit suspiciously well with the oligarchic plot against Kleophon, the person most strongly attacked in the play. The textually controversial passage 1433–68 is analysed and argued to be a conflation of versions from the first and second productions; once these are disentangled, each proves to be complete and correctly sequenced. The passage 1442–50, inserted for the second production, significantly underlines the political message of the parabasis.
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Epicharmus and early Sicilian comedy
Divinity and religious practice
The reception of Greek comedy in Rome
Comedy and Athenian law
The politics of Greek comedy
The rivals of Aristophanes and Menander
Dramatic technique and Athenian comedy
Contexts of reception in antiquity
Fourth-century comedy before Menander
The Greek ‘comic hero’
Performing gender in Greek Old and New Comedy
Theiconography of comedy
Attic comedy in the rhetorical and moralising traditions
Comedy and Athenian festival culture
Demosthenes, Parody and the Frogs
How to avoid being a komodoumenos
Old Comedians on Old Comedy
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2014 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |