This book examines the plays of the Greek comic writer Aristophanes and attempts to reconstruct the responses of the original audiences by using anthropological techniques to compare the plays with those Greek myths and rituals that share similar story patterns or subject matter. It is the first book to apply this type of analysis systematically to all the comedies, and also differs from earlier studies in that it does not impose a single interpretative structure on the plays. All Greek is translated.
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"Bowie's book is a refreshing examination of Aristophanes's use of myth and ritual." Martha Habash, Classical Journal
"...the reader will find a wealth of information and detail about ancient rites and festivals, and there are not few places where one's reading of an Aristophanic comedy will be enlarged and enlightened by the material that Bowie adduces." Classical Views
"...the reader will find a wealth of information and detail about ancient rites and festivals, and there are not few places where one's reading of an Aristophanic comedy will be enlarged and enlightened by the material that Bowie adduces." Classical Views
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Using anthropological techniques to compare the plays with Greek myths and rituals sharing similar story-patterns or subject matter, this book examines the plays of the Greek comic writer Aristophanes. It attempts to reconstruct the responses of the original audiences.
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Excellent resource on a critical text in literary history,
This review is from: Aristophanes: Myth, Ritual and Comedy (Paperback)
How can one fail to be interested in Aristophanes? Specifically, texts like the Clouds or the Frogs reveal a satirical look at mythic-historical figures like Socrates or Dionysus, whose literary influences are unending. Bowie expands the conversation by seeking to view the plays as originally seen by Athenians, while at the same time noting classical influences and readings.
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In Beethoven's Fidelio, after the prisoners have been locked away for the night, Leonora, disguised as a young man, descends with the jailer Rocco to the cell where her husband Florestan is imprisoned, in order to help kill and bury him as ordered by Pizarro. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eleusinian Mysteries, Rural Dionysia, Lemnian Women, Worse Argument, Ste Croix, Homeric Hymn, Athena Polias, Old Comedy, Forbes Irving, Great Panathenaea, Persian Wars, Archon Basileus, Artemis Ortheia, Great Dionysia, Richard Seaford, Zeus Meilichius New!
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- Works and Days (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints) by Hesiod on page 19, and Back Matter
- Greek Tragedy (Drama Classics) by Sophocles Sophocles in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Origin of Attic Comedy (Ann Arbor Paperbacks) by Francis Macdonald Cornford on page 3, and Back Matter
- The Gardens of Adonis by Marcel Detienne on page 181, and Back Matter
- The Greek Mysteries (Iconography of Religions Section 17, Greece and Rome) by Ugo Bianchi in Back Matter
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- Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy by M. S. Silk on page 40, and Back Matter
- The Death of Comedy by Erich Segal in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Slaves and Other Objects by Page duBois in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Women and Humor in Classical Greece by Laurie O'Higgins in Back Matter
- Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy by Simon Goldhill in Back Matter
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