Les « sauvageonnes » d'Athènes. Les classes d'âge féminines chez Aristophane
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4082398 |
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| Authors | Malika Bastin-Hammou (0000-0003-3478-3368, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Issue | 108 |
| Pages | 39-49 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pallas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-0387 • E-ISSN: 2272-7639 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/pallas.9569 |
| OpenAlex | W2984581328 |
| Language | FR |
| References cited | 10 |
This paper aims to apply Charalampos Orfanos’ conclusions about the categories of ages in Aristophanes’ comedies to female characters. It shows that comedy is much more interested in the category of ephebes than in that of young girls. Married women are divided into two opposed groups, the newly married/new wives and the rest, the latter being involved in political reflection and action, in Lysistrata and in The Assemblywomen. This category reproduces the generational conflict which opposes ephebes to adult men. As for the old women, they are reduced to the caricatural γραῦς, who never undergoes the rejuvenation process of her male counterpart, the γέρων. Finally, it demonstrates that some female characters transgress these categories and embody, metatheatrically, comedy itself, in both in its farcelike energy and in its political aspirations
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| Highly cited | No |
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