This book provides a new interpretation of the nature of Old Comedy
and its place at the heart of Athenian democratic politics.
Professor Sidwell argues that Aristophanes and his rivals belonged
to opposing political groups, each with their own political agenda.
Through disguised caricature and parody of their rivals' work, the
poets expressed and fuelled the political conflict between their
factions. Professor Sidwell rereads the principal texts of
Aristophanes and the fragmented remains of the work of his rivals
in the light of these arguments for the political foundations of
the genre.
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