Aristophanes’ Knights, Peace, and Birds are deeply interested in the figure of the civic “saviour”, who is depicted as a Gottmensch: a man become god or, at least, a man deserving of religious treatment such as the gods receive. While the Aristophanic treatment of the theme contains many parodic, paratragic, and metatheatrical elements, it arguably still offers a utilizable and unique window onto real-life practices concerning fifth-century BCE Gottmensch- and saviour-figures. Aristophanic comedy consequently has a role to play in the reconstruction of the early history of saviour- and ruler-cult, prior to the divine cult given to Lysandros in his own lifetime at Samos in 404 BCE
Mockery of tragedy is a striking and recurrent feature of the poetry of Aristophanes. Critics have s...
The People and its servants Fifth-century Athens, and the so-called “Old Comedy”, offer us a chance ...
The Aristophanic comedy has been relentlessly criticizing the political, social and economic decline...
The gods as dramatis personae were introduced into the stage of the ancient Greek theatre by the tra...
Flying to Heaven to demand an end to war, building Cloudcuckooland in the sky, descending to Hades t...
Ritual permeates Greek comedies of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. In Birds and Peace, the perfor...
The article titled „Return of the rightful gods”? Colonization, Violence, and Utopia in Aristophanes...
This thesis seeks to understand the portrayals of animal sacrifice in the Old Comedy of classical Gr...
The material of this thesis is the area of personal humour roughly covered by τὸ ὸνομαστὶ κωμῳεν - t...
It is no doubt true that the questions I would like to address in this chapter, which concern Aristo...
Gods are a significant presence in Greek comedies, as it is the case of Hermes, the god who plays a ...
This thesis investigates the concept of leadership in four comedies of Aristophanes. In the first ch...
The main characteristics of the dramatic art of Aristophanes –based on his work Ornithes (Birds)- an...
De Ste. Croix famously argued that Aristophanes had a conservative political outlook and attempted t...
Surprisingly few gods appear in the eleven surviving comedies of Aristophanes. This article examines...
Mockery of tragedy is a striking and recurrent feature of the poetry of Aristophanes. Critics have s...
The People and its servants Fifth-century Athens, and the so-called “Old Comedy”, offer us a chance ...
The Aristophanic comedy has been relentlessly criticizing the political, social and economic decline...
The gods as dramatis personae were introduced into the stage of the ancient Greek theatre by the tra...
Flying to Heaven to demand an end to war, building Cloudcuckooland in the sky, descending to Hades t...
Ritual permeates Greek comedies of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. In Birds and Peace, the perfor...
The article titled „Return of the rightful gods”? Colonization, Violence, and Utopia in Aristophanes...
This thesis seeks to understand the portrayals of animal sacrifice in the Old Comedy of classical Gr...
The material of this thesis is the area of personal humour roughly covered by τὸ ὸνομαστὶ κωμῳεν - t...
It is no doubt true that the questions I would like to address in this chapter, which concern Aristo...
Gods are a significant presence in Greek comedies, as it is the case of Hermes, the god who plays a ...
This thesis investigates the concept of leadership in four comedies of Aristophanes. In the first ch...
The main characteristics of the dramatic art of Aristophanes –based on his work Ornithes (Birds)- an...
De Ste. Croix famously argued that Aristophanes had a conservative political outlook and attempted t...
Surprisingly few gods appear in the eleven surviving comedies of Aristophanes. This article examines...
Mockery of tragedy is a striking and recurrent feature of the poetry of Aristophanes. Critics have s...
The People and its servants Fifth-century Athens, and the so-called “Old Comedy”, offer us a chance ...
The Aristophanic comedy has been relentlessly criticizing the political, social and economic decline...