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Aristophanes and Alcibiades - Echoes of Contemporary History in Athenian Comedy (Hardcover, Digital original)
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Aristophanes and Alcibiades - Echoes of Contemporary History in Athenian Comedy (Hardcover, Digital original)
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The conventional view of Aristophanes bristles with problems.
Important testimony for Alcibiades' paramount role in comedy is
consistently disregarded, and the tradition that "masks were made
to look like the komodoumenoi, so that before an actor spoke a
word, the audience would recognize who was being attacked" is
hardly ever invoked. If these testimonia are taken into account, a
fascinating picture emerges, where the komodoumenoi are based on
the Periclean household: older characters on Pericles himself,
younger on Alcibiades. Aspasia, Pericles' mistress, and Hipparete,
Alcibiades' wife, lie behind many female characters, and
Alcibiades' ambiguous sexuality also allows him to be shown on the
stage as a woman, notably as Lysistrata. There is a substantial
overlap between the anecdotal tradition relating to the historical
figures and the plotting of Aristophanes' plays. This extends to
speech patterns, where Alcibiades' speech defect is lampooned.
Aristophanes is consistently critical of Alcibiades' mercurial
politics, and his works can also be seen to have served as an
aide-memoire for Thucydides and Xenophon. If the argument presented
here is correct, then much current scholarship on Aristophanes can
be set aside.
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