The Parabasis in Aristophanes
Prolegomena, Acharnians
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9665355 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A M Bowie (0000-0002-6359-290X, University of Liverpool, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-40 |
| Publication date | 1982-05-01 |
| 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/s0009838800022771 |
| OpenAlex | W2275471447 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 19 |
In this article, an introduction to a proposed more comprehensive treatment of the subject, I wish to discuss the contribution that the parabasis makes to the understanding and interpretation of Aristophanes’ comedies. The study of this part of the plays has in the past concentrated upon two main areas: firstly, its role in the development of comedy, including questions about its original position in the dramatic structure and its relationship to other elements such as the parodos and agon; and secondly, its role as the repository of Aristophanes’ personal views. 1 I shall touch but incidentally on the first of these, though my argument will have some bearing on it; to the second I shall return at the end. My aim is to consider an aspect of the parabasis that has not so much been neglected as dismissed as non-existent: the relation between the contents of the parabasis and those of the rest of the play. It is generally agreed that the parabasis deals with matters that are irrelevant to the dramatic action, but I wish to argue that it has a significant role as the focus of the most important themes in the play: far from breaking up the unity of the play, the parabasis provides indications as to where that unity is to be found, besides giving hints about the meaning of the play and the nature of Aristophanic comedy generally. 2
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Laughter
Fourth-century comedy before Menander
Performing gender in Greek Old and New Comedy
Epicharmus and early Sicilian comedy
The rivals of Aristophanes and Menander
Character types
Comedy and Athenian festival culture
Snapshots of Aristophanes and Menander
Comedy and Athenian law
Attic comedy in the rhetorical and moralising traditions
The politics of Greek comedy
Dramatic technique and Athenian comedy
Contexts of reception in antiquity
The reception of Greek comedy in Rome
The Greek ‘comic hero’
Introduzione
Theiconography of comedy
Divinity and religious practice
Choral Disrobing in Aristophanes
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy
Eros and Polis
Rivers and Rivalry in Petronius, Horace, Callimachus, and Aristophanes
Tragedy and Trugedy
The drunk, the reformer and the teacher
The Comic Nature of Ecce Homo
Aristophanes vs Typhon
Control of Costume in Three Plays of Aristophanes
Essays in Greek history
The origins of the Peloponnesian War
The Homeric hymn to Demeter
The Acharnians of Aristophanes
Greek Poetry and Life
The Position of the Parabasis in the Plays of Aristophanes
Formen und Darstellungsweisen in der aristophanischen Komödie
Notes on Aristophanes
Aristofane, Autore di teatro
Aristophanes and the Comic Hero
The Comic Fragments in their Relation to the Structure of Old Attic Comedy
Sparta and Persia
Beobachtungen zu Aristophanes
The Theatre of Aristophanes
Parabasis and Animal Choruses
The Origins of the Peloponnesian War
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2020 (38) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |