Aristophanes and the poetics of competition/

Main Author: Biles, Zachary P., 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, c2011
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: proagon
  • 1. From Thamyris to Aristophanes: the competitive poetics of the comic parabasis
  • 2. The competitive partnership of Aristophanes and Dikaiopolis in Acharnians
  • 3. Aristophanes' poetic tropaion: competitive didaskalia and contest records in Knights
  • 4. Intertextual biography in the rivalry of Cratinus and Aristophanes
  • 5. Aristophanes' Clouds-palinode
  • 6. Dionysos and dionysia in Frogs.