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Aristophanes, Clouds 1158–62: A Prosopographical Note
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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In his article on the early career of Aristophanes, in particular on the relevance of the thiasotai on IG ii2.2343 and the importance of Herakles in the plays of Aristophanes, David Welsh has supported the thesis of Dow, that several of the thiasotai are mentioned by Aristophanes in his plays (e.g. Simon, Amphitheus, Antitheos). He suggests that another of these thiasotai, Lysanias, may be alluded to at Clouds 1162. Here the unusual word λυσαν⋯ας in the text means ostensibly ‘deliverer’, but Welsh argues that in view of the rarity of the word ‘the spectators would have been put in mind of a contemporary individual…a Lysanias who was known for his filial piety or forensic ability (or lack of the same).’
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1 CQ 33 (1983), 51–5CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
2 The scholiast regards this as a parody of Sophokles and cites fr. 80IN2 = 887 Radt: Ζεὺς ν⋯στον ἄγοι τ⋯ν νικομ⋯χαν | κα⋯ παυσαν⋯αν κατ' 'Ατρειδ⋯ν. On the tragic elements in this song of Strepsiades see Fisher, Raymond K., Aristophanes, Clouds: Purpose and Technique (Amsterdam, 1984), pp. 209–10Google Scholar.
3 SEG XXI 131.25 = Bradeen, D. W.The Athenian Agora, vol. XVIIGoogle Scholar: Inscriptions: the Funerary Monuments (Princeton, 1974), nr. 23, 118Google Scholar; originally published by Bradeen, in Hesperia 33 (1964), 48fCrossRefGoogle Scholar.
4 The reader for CQ points out that if a real Lysanias is meant here, then the comparison to him is essentially positive and the point of the reference should be appropriate to the deliverance of one's father. The reader suggests that Lysanias could have saved his father's life at the recent [if this part of Clouds belongs to 423] battle of Delion.