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The Sycophant in Episodic Scenes of Aristophanic Comedy
The sycophant, a true ‘plague’ for Athenian society in the classical age, is dramatis persona
in some episodic scenes of Aristophanic comedy. An analysis of the peculiarities
of such scenes shows how the sycophant’s negative features were pushed to the extreme
by the distorting lens of the greatest poet of Old Comedy, producing a surreal, monstrous
comic mask apt to strike the imagination of an Attic audience, accustomed as it
was to the sad reality of trials and tribunals, where those shady characters used to rage
by accusing both Athenian and foreigners, offering testimonies for the prosecution, and
demanding a sentence. Aristophanes’ plays, having sycophants mauled and expelled,
thus expressed the common desire of Athenian citizens to punish such individuals and
get rid – on the stage at least – of their ominous presence
Le commedie perdute di Aristofane
Sunto: In questo contributo mi propongo di analizzare brevemente trama e datazione delle commedie aristofanee non conservate per intero.
Abstract: This paper offers an analysis of plot and datation of the lost comedies of Aristophanes
SCHEDA BIBLIOGRAFICA A EURIPIDE. LE FENICIE. INTRODUZIONE, TESTO E COMMENTARIO A CURA DI DOMENICO FERRANTE, EDIZIONI DANILO, NAPOLI 1996, PP. 165.
recensione a Aristofane. Le donne all’assemblea, a cura di Massimo Vetta. Traduzione di Dario Del Corno, Milano, "Fondazione Lorenzo Valla", Mondadori, 1989, pp. LXX, 297
Scheda bibliografica a M. Pellegrino, Persia e ‘utopia carnevalesca’ nella commedia greca
Scheda bibliografica a Walter Lapini, Studi di filologia filosofica greca, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2003, pp. 279
scheda bibliografica a Elina Miranda Cancela, Los mitos clásicos en el teatro contemporáneo del Caribe insular hispánico, in Bernhard Zimmermann (Hrsg.), Rezeption des antiken Dramas auf der Bühne und in der Literatur (Drama 10), Metzler, Stuttgart-Weimar 2001, 285-312
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