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  • - Political Comedy in Aristophanes' Early Plays
    av Michael Vickers
    399,-

    Vickers reads the first six of Aristophanes' eleven extant plays in a way that reveals the principal characters to be based in large part on Pericles and his ward Alcibiades.

  • - Echoes of Contemporary History in Athenian Comedy
    av Michael Vickers
    272 - 1 343,-

    The conventional view of Aristophanes bristles with problems. Important testimony for Alcibiades' paramount role in comedy is consistently disregarded, and the tradition that "e;masks were made to look like the komodoumenoi, so that before an actor spoke a word, the audience would recognize who was being attacked"e; 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.

  • - Discovering Ancient America
    av Michael Vickers
    218,-

  • - Athenian Politics in Ancient Greek Literature
    av Michael Vickers
    608 - 1 815,-

    Literary historians have long held the view that the plays of the Greek dramatist, Sophocles deal purely with archetypes of the heroic past and that any resemblance to contemporary events or individuals is purely coincidental. This book challenges this view.

  • - Movement for a Mid-West State
    av Michael Vickers
    390 - 824,-

  • av Michael Vickers
    140,-

    This handbook tracks the eventful history of the Arundel and Pomfret Marbles before they came to rest in Oxford.

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