ταυτ' εγω μαρτυρομαι: Bystanders as Witnesses in Aristophanes

Spatharas, Dimos

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“…Philokleon's brief runs of trochees and iambic dimeters at 1326–31 and 1335–40 do not affect the applicability of the term. On such scenes, see Gelzer (1976), 9–11, Kaimio et al (1990), 59–61, Grava (1999), Spatharas (2008), Pellegrino (2017).…”

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THE THIRD LIFECYCLE OF PHILOKLEON IN ARISTOPHANES’ WASPS

Cowan

2022

Ramus

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The mutability of Philokleon's generational identity in Aristophanes’ Wasps is well established. Critics routinely write of his ‘rejuvenation’ in the second half of the play, and it is in the scene with the αὐλητρίϲ (‘aulos-girl’), Dardanis, that the old man most explicitly plays the part of an irresponsible youth waiting for his son (in the role of father) to die. However, inversions and perversions of generational identity pervade the whole play. Even before Philokleon has undergone his liberating transformation at the symposion, the educational roles of father and son are reversed as Bdelykleon schools him in the proper way to behave in polite society. More subtly and extensively, Bowie has shown how the three agones in which Philokleon unsuccessfully engages during the first half of the play correspond to the three stages of an Athenian male citizen's life: ephebeia, maturity in the hoplite phalanx, and old age in the jury. However, critics have not observed that Philokleon goes through another, parallel journey from youth through maturity to old age in the three ‘iambic scenes’ where he is confronted by the victims of his outrageous behaviour on his way home from the symposion. This article will show how Aristophanes constructs this third lifecycle (counting Bowie's agones and his literal maturation before the play's action begins) before considering its implications for the wider characterization of Philokleon and in particular the final scene.

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THE THIRD LIFECYCLE OF PHILOKLEON IN ARISTOPHANES’ WASPS

Cowan

2022

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“…1247, V. 1436, Pax 1119. Acerca de los testigos en la comedia antigua, ver Spatharas (2008), quien muestra la ineficacia dramática de estos llamados. Como se ha ya adelantado, el verbo suele corresponderse, en plano procesal, a la presentación de testigos en los tribunales, quienes debían prestar juramento, quedando sujetos a la posibilidad de una acción por falso testimonio (Carey, 1995).…”

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Las virtudes del derecho inexacto: la imprecisión jurídica como estrategia literaria en Menandro (Samia 570-588 y Héroe 18-40)

Buis

2021

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A pesar de que suele decirse que, a diferencia de las obras aristofánicas, la comedia de Menandro no se caracteriza por incluir referencias al derecho ateniense, un análisis de sus piezas conservadas permite apreciar un número considerable de alusiones a leyes, litigios y procedimientos judiciales. El objetivo de este trabajo es examinar dos pasajes en que se despliega ese recurso del plano jurídico (Sam. 570-588; Her. 18-40) con el fin de examinar las estrategias mediante las cuales allí Menandro manipula literariamente el derecho. En particular, se relevará en ambos textos la voluntad por apelar de modo genérico y vacilante al universo del derecho. A partir de una comparación con el pasaje de Escudo 174-189, se concluirá que la imprecisión y la vaguedad –características privilegiadas de estas referencias– replican los malentendidos tipos de los enredos cómicos y las incertidumbres de status con las que los argumentos de las piezas suelen revestir a sus personajes.

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The Limits of Altruism in Democratic Athens

Christ

2012

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Athenians in the classical period (508–322 BC) were drawn to an image of themselves as a compassionate and generous people who rushed to the aid of others in distress, both at home and abroad. What relation does this image bear to actual Athenian behavior? This book argues that Athenians felt little pressure as individuals to help fellow citizens whom they did not know. Democratic ideology called on citizens to refrain from harming one another rather than to engage in mutual support, and emphasized the importance of the helping relationship between citizen and city rather than among individual citizens. If the obligation of Athenians to help fellow citizens was fairly tenuous, all the more so was their responsibility to intervene to assist the peoples of other states; a distinct pragmatism prevailed in the city's decisions concerning intervention abroad.

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ταυτ' εγω μαρτυρομαι: Bystanders as Witnesses in Aristophanes

Cited by 4 publications

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THE THIRD LIFECYCLE OF PHILOKLEON IN ARISTOPHANES’ WASPS

THE THIRD LIFECYCLE OF PHILOKLEON IN ARISTOPHANES’ WASPS

Las virtudes del derecho inexacto: la imprecisión jurídica como estrategia literaria en Menandro (Samia 570-588 y Héroe 18-40)

The Limits of Altruism in Democratic Athens

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