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Hyper-Democracy: The Politics of Aristophanes
… areas of Classical scholarship: the politics of Aristophanes, the meaning of democracy, and the nature of ancient theatre. In the first place, I propose to re-conceptualize Aristophanes’ political agenda, which has often been conceived in terms of the poet’s personal antagonism towards democracy …
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Studies in the 'Lysistrata' of Aristophanes
Commentary on Aristophanes' $\textit{Lysistrata}$.
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Aristophanes And The Poetics Of Low Comedy
The Greek comic poet Aristophanes often comments on the value of different comic modes. When he articulates his own comic preferences, his “poetics,” he does so using the framework of a dichotomy that contrasts a low-comic mode and a high-comic mode. The low mode is characterized by stock …
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"Studies In The Manuscript Tradition Of The ""ranae"" In Aristophanes"
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Space in Aristophanes: Portraying the Civic and Domestic Worlds in Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps
… treatment of the scenic and diegetic space in Aristophanes' Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps, and the comedies' attitude towards a variety of domestic and civic spaces, taking into consideration the cultural context in which the plays were composed. I argue that by using visual creativity and the …
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A phallic play: Examining 5<sup>th</sup> century cultural references to illuminate aristophanes' appeal for peace to a modern audience
<p>Aristophanes’ <em>Lysistrata</em> is a popular work for contemporary production. Written in 411 BCE, the work explores what happens when the females of Athens participate in a sex strike in order to coerce the males to end the Peloponnesian War. By exploring cultural references to symbols in …
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Aristophanic Oracles
… Lysistrata). This thesis aims (a) to discuss Aristophanes’ stance toward oracles and oracle-collections; (b) to comment on each oracle in these four plays in chronological order, and to reach conclusions regarding Aristophanes’ usage of them while paying close attention to their language. The …
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A Commentary on the Fragments of Anaxandrides
… an attempt to make sense of the transition from Aristophanes to Menander by means of a detailed analysis of one representative poet.
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Sexual Metaphors in the Fifteenth to Sixteenth Century French Farce
… comparison and contrast, from other literature (Aristophanes, Chaucer, the fabliaux, Poggio, Boccaccio, etc.). Due to the volume of material collected, the dissertation alas was limited to those sexual metaphors which form the basis of the plot of one or more plays (sex as medicine, i.e. the …
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The Good Old Days: The Concept of the Golden Age in Greek Political Thought
… and praxis. Lastly, I examine the comedies of Aristophanes, which illustrate how golden age thinking inevitably surfaces in actual politics as a polity endures over time. In the end, I argue that the golden age has the unique ability to blur the line between idealism and realism by placing a …
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Socrates as citizen?: the implications of Socratic eros for contemporary models of citizenship
… of the treatment of Socrates by the comic poet Aristophanes in the Clouds. I suggest that Socrates' famed eros, his unwavering love of wisdom, was a problem, one that threatened the very foundations of political society. By conceiving of Socrates, the first of the political philosophers, as a …
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Theatre of community: healing functions of theatre in society
… views of a society that valued the plays. Aristophanes' Peace shows the emotional state of the Athenian society nearly a century after the fifty-year Persian War. The core of the thesis is that theatre is a societal healer of individuals, which can result in communal healing.
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Looking with Narcissus: Oscar Wilde’s Reception of the Dying God
… are informed by the plays of Euripides and Aristophanes. Chapters 2 and 3 turn Wilde’s inverted ideas of reading on their head. Chapter 2 argues that Wilde’s use of the Orpheus story in Ovid’s Metamorphoses is revealing about not only Dorian Gray’s but also his author’s troubled relations …
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Lucian and the Atticists: A Barbarian at the Gates
… of Classical Athens, language of Plato and Aristophanes. Others, however, disagree with the narrow and perhaps pretentious version of Greek this ideology produced; intriguingly Lucian was a member of this group as well. This study examines Lucian’s complex and contradictory attitudes towards …
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Lucian's New Old Comedy
… around the three lights of Old Comedy: Cratinus, Aristophanes, and Eupolis, to remedy their faults, rewrite their defeats, and undo their deaths, all while replacing them with himself in the center of their narratives.</p> <p>In order to do this, Lucian engages polemically with these poets’ …
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The 'Last Philosophy' Enquiring into the 'First': The Influence of Classical Thought on Theodor W. Adorno
Adorno discerned a modern quality in the classical tradition, and by incorporating this tradition into his writings he implied that there is still contemporary relevance in the classical works of the past. Classical philosophy and literature not only provided source material for his theories, but …
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Καβάφης και Αρχαίο Θέατρο
Στην παρούσα διατριβή εξετάζεται η ποικιλόμορφη και πολυδιάστατη παρουσία του αρχαίου θεάτρου στο καβαφικό έργο· πιο συγκεκριμένα επιχειρείται η συγκεντρωτική καταγραφή και φιλολογική ανάλυση όλων των έργων του ποιητή που συνδέονται, άμεσα ή έμμεσα, με το αρχαίο θέατρο. Όπως διαπιστώνεται, η …