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Nature, Culture, and the Origins of Greek Comedy - A Study of Animal Choruses (Hardcover)
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Nature, Culture, and the Origins of Greek Comedy - A Study of Animal Choruses (Hardcover)
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Aristophanes' Birds, Wasps and Frogs offer the best-known examples
of the animal choruses of Greek comedy of the fifth century BC, but
sixth-century vase-paintings of men costumed as cocks, bulls and
horses indicated that comedies were only the last phase of a longer
tradition. This book suggests that although the earlier masquerades
may have had ritual origins, they should be seen also as products
of the culture of the archaic aristocratic symposium. The animal
choruses of the late fifth century may have been conscious revivals
of an earlier tradition. Moreover, the animals of comedy were not
the predators found in other literary genres; they were, instead,
social animals who showed that nature and culture could co-exist.
The Birds, which tells the story of a city foundation, also
parodies fifth-century philosophical accounts of the origins of
human civilization. Also discussed are the Wasps, Frogs and
fragments of lost comedies.
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