Aristophanes: Cavalry - Professor Robert Tordoff

Aristophanes: Cavalry

Buch | Softcover
208 Seiten
2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-06568-0 (ISBN)
28,65 inkl. MwSt
Offering for the first time a student introduction to Aristophanes’ most explosive political satire, this volume is an essential guide to the context, themes and later reception of Cavalry. The ancient comedy is a fascinating insight into power relations between slaves and slaveholders and the upper and lower classes in classical Athens, and its political and social themes resonate with a modern audience more now than ever before.

Originally performed in 424 BCE, Cavalry targets the Athenian demagogue Cleon, who had risen to prominence since the death of Pericles and to pre-eminence after an audacious victory over Sparta in 425. In Cavalry, Aristophanes attacks Cleon’s popularity with the urban underclass, but also targets democracy itself as guilty of gullibility, self-interest, and political short-sightedness. As the play shows, the only hope of escape from this crisis is for Athens to find a leader even more foul-mouthed, depraved, and shameless than Cleon himself. And who better than a sausage-seller, if only because he turns out in the end to have a good heart and a true love of traditional Athenian values?

Rob Tordoff is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek, York University, Toronto, Canada.

Introduction

1. Cleon, the Peloponnesian War and Athenian Democracy

2. Cavalry in Performance

3. Cavalry’s Plot, Themes and Meaning

4. The Reception History of Cavalry

Notes
Summary of Action
Glossary

Editions, Commentaries and Translations
Suggestions for Further Reading
Works Cited
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 14.12.2023
Reihe/Serie Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions
Zusatzinfo 6 bw illus
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-350-06568-4 / 1350065684
ISBN-13 978-1-350-06568-0 / 9781350065680
Zustand Neuware
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