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Comedy and Religion in Classical Athens - Narratives of Religious Experiences in Aristophanes' Wealth (Hardcover)
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Comedy and Religion in Classical Athens - Narratives of Religious Experiences in Aristophanes' Wealth (Hardcover)
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This book opens up a new perspective on Aristophanic drama and its
relationship to Greek religion. It focuses on the comedy Wealth,
whose fantasy of universal enrichment is structured upon a rich and
largely unexplored framework of traditional stories of Greek
religious experiences, such as oracles, miracle cures, and the
introduction of new gods. The book examines the form and function
of these stories, and explores how the playwright adapts them for
his own comic purposes, grounding his comic fantasy on stories of
philanthropic divinities who dependably respond to the needs of
their worshippers. The collaboration of these deities, who act in
tandem with their worshippers, achieves the comic fantasy.
Francisco Barrenechea also addresses the larger question of how
comedy participated in the religion of its time by imagining and
dramatizing beliefs, and reveals the salutary bond that can exist
between humor and religion in general.
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