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Lucian's New Old Comedy
… study shows that Lucian is deeply engaged with Old Comedy as a literary model, and that the kind of comic dialogue he claims to invent (<em>Bis Acc</em>. 33,<em> Prom. Es</em> 6) is not an evenly balanced hybrid of Platonic Dialogue and Old Comedy as has been previously thought. Instead, Lucian …
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Aristophanic Oracles
Four out of the eleven extant Aristophanic comedies contain, or refer to, oracles (Knights, Peace, Birds, 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 …