Aristophanes, Lysistrata , 641–647
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9664811 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christiane Sourvinou (St. John's College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 339-342 |
| Publication date | 1971-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Classical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8388 • E-ISSN: 1471-6844 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0009838800033486 |
| OpenAlex | W2038896061 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 2 |
This passage has been used—and abused—for the study of Athenian female initiations, or, more cautiously, of the practice of the arkteia at Brauron. As it is, it poses more problems that it solves. Most of all, it complicates the question of the age of the arktoi . In fact the scholium seems prima facie to contradict the text, when on v. 645 it says that the ‘bears’ were not more than ten years and not less than five years old, while the accepted text of Aristophanes decisively implies an age greater than ten years. The situation is even more obscured by another indication pointing towards an association of the arkteia with the age of ten, the equation of the verb dekateusai with arkteusai
Art · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Prima facie · Verb · Ancient Near East History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2022 (42) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |