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Who is Dicaeopolis?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

E. L. Bowie
E. L. Bowie
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Corpus Christi College, Oxford
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The name given by Aristophanes to the leading character in his Acharnians has given rise to much discussion, and I take the opportunity of the appearance in this Journal of another well-documented assessment to put forward briefly, and without a full and independent armoury of footnotes, a solution that contests the communis opinio that Dicaeopolis in some sense speaks for and as Aristophanes.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 108 , November 1988 , pp. 183 - 185
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1988

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References

1 H. P. Foley, Tragedy and politics in Aristophanes’ Achamians, above pp. 33-47.

2 See however Macdowell (Foley n. 3).

3 Postponement ofleading character's names is of course exploited elsewhere, e.g. Strepsiades is first named in Nu. 134, Philocleon and Bdelycleon in Vesp. 133-4, Trygaeus in Pax 190. But in Ach. we learn the name even later.

4 Cf. Foley (n. 6).

5 I do not accept that (as suggested by a Journal referee) the similarity of phraseology between 497-502 and the parabasis demonstrates that the audience would take the passages to refer to the same person. Are we to assume that on hearing the parabasis the audience would actually change whatever identification it had already formed at 497 ff.?

6 See Lewis, D. M., ABSA 1 (1955) 1–12Google Scholar, Henderson, J., Aristophanes Lysistrata (Oxford 1987) xxxviii–xlCrossRefGoogle Scholar.

7 See Kassell, R. and Austin, C., Poetae comici graeci v (Berlin/New York 1986) 294Google Scholar, Eupolis Test. 2a8.

8 Foley (n. 52).

9 Kassel-Austin (n. 7) 442 ff. on Prospaltioi.

10 260.30. μέγα στένοι μέντἄν άκ| cf. Ach. 162. ύποστενοι μέντἃν ό θρανίτης λέως.

11 Wilamowitz, , Philologische Untersuchungen i (1880) 66Google Scholar.

12 E. Handlcy has even proposed a date as late as 415 BC, PCA lxxix (1982) 24 ff.