Aristophanes and Alcibiades Echoes of Contemporary History in Athenian Comedy Michael Vickers 3110427958 9783110427950

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• ISBN 10: 3110427958
• ISBN 13: 9783110427950
• Author: Michael Vickers

The conventional view of Aristophanes bristles with problems. Important testimony for Alcibiades’ paramount role in comedy is consistently disregarded, and the tradition that “masks were made to look like the komodoumenoi, so that before an actor spoke a word, the audience would recognize who was being attacked” is hardly ever invoked. If these testimonia are taken into account, a fascinating picture emerges, where the komodoumenoi are based on the Periclean household: older characters on Pericles himself, younger on Alcibiades. Aspasia, Pericles’ mistress, and Hipparete, Alcibiades’ wife, lie behind many female characters, and Alcibiades’ ambiguous sexuality also allows him to be shown on the stage as a woman, notably as Lysistrata.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Political Allegory in Aristophanes

Chapter 2Wordplay; Pericles, Alcibiades and Aspasia on Stage

Chapter 3Pericles (and Alcibiades) on Stage: The Story So Far

Chapter 4The Tragic Context: the Case of Euripides’ Ion

Chapter 5Happy Families: Plutus i

Chapter 7“The Woman of Old”: Euripides’ Helen and Andromeda

Chapter 8“Alcibiades is a Woman’s Man”: Lysistrata

Chapter 9Alcibiades in Gaol: Thesmophoriazusae

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