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Paperback Pericles on Stage: Political Comedy in Aristophanes' Early Plays Book

ISBN: 029273493X

ISBN13: 9780292734937

Pericles on Stage: Political Comedy in Aristophanes' Early Plays

Since the eighteenth century, classical scholars have generally agreed that the Greek playwright Aristophanes did not as a matter of course write "political" plays. Yet, according to an anonymous Life of Aristophanes, when Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse wanted to know about the government of Athens, Plato sent him a copy of Aristophanes' Clouds.

In this boldly revisionist work, Michael Vickers convincingly argues that in...

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