Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Detail of illustration
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- PART I SETTING THE STAGE
- PART II THE POETS' WAR
- Conclusions and consequences
- PART III APPENDICES
- Appendix 1 The view from the theatron
- Appendix 2 Metacomedy and caricature in the surviving fourth-century plays of Aristophanes
- Appendix 3 Timeline and proposed relationships between comedies
- Appendix 4 The date of Eupolis' Taxiarchoi
- Appendix 5 Clouds 868–73 and τραυλίζω
- Appendix 6 Michael Vickers on Strepsiades and Pericles
- Bibliography
- Index
- Index Locorum
- Index of Modern Scholars
Appendix 3 - Timeline and proposed relationships between comedies
from PART III - APPENDICES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Detail of illustration
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- PART I SETTING THE STAGE
- PART II THE POETS' WAR
- Conclusions and consequences
- PART III APPENDICES
- Appendix 1 The view from the theatron
- Appendix 2 Metacomedy and caricature in the surviving fourth-century plays of Aristophanes
- Appendix 3 Timeline and proposed relationships between comedies
- Appendix 4 The date of Eupolis' Taxiarchoi
- Appendix 5 Clouds 868–73 and τραυλίζω
- Appendix 6 Michael Vickers on Strepsiades and Pericles
- Bibliography
- Index
- Index Locorum
- Index of Modern Scholars
Summary
This list is an attempt to pull together for ease of reference various suggestions made in the course of the argument. The evidence for the relationships and relative dates is discussed in the text and is not repeated here. Everything (apart from a few solid dates and one or two names of characters) is conjectural. However, it is worth mentioning again that the basis for the conjectures made is: (1) the centrality of on-stage caricature in Old Comedy; (2) the hypothesis that antagonism between poets was based on the real political agenda of each participant; (3) that poets were themselves on-stage targets; (4) that therefore their plays formed part and parcel of the attempt to satirise each other's political postures and circles; (5) that we can spot the points where such antagonistic misappropriations are being made by a number of methods which include: (a) looking for scenes which contradict Aristophanes' parabatic strictures (they are parodic); (b) finding close linguistic or thematic relationships between extant plays and the fragments of rival comedies; (c) tracking passages of ‘self-imitation’ (they are parodying specific material from a rival poet or poets).
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- Aristophanes the DemocratThe Politics of Satirical Comedy during the Peloponnesian War, pp. 341 - 345Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009