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Aristophanes - Myth, Ritual and Comedy (Hardcover)
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Aristophanes - Myth, Ritual and Comedy (Hardcover)
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This book places the plays of Aristophanes in their contemporary
context, asking what aspects of Greek, and especially Athenian,
culture these comedies brought into play for their original
audiences. It makes particular use of the structural analysis of
Greek rituals and myths to demonstrate how their meanings and
functions can be used to interpret the plays. This information is
then used to suggest ways in which twentieth-century audiences may
read the plays in terms of contemporary literary theories and
concerns. This is the first book to apply the techniques of
structural anthropology systematically to all the comedies. It does
not impose a single interpretative structure on the plays but
argues that each play operates with a range of different
structures, and that groups of plays use similar structures in
different ways. All Greek is translated.
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