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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Part I
Chapter 1: Seeing Democracy in the Clouds
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V.
Notes
Chapter 2: The Meaning of Socrates’ Asceticism in Aristophanes’ Clouds
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IV.
V.
Notes
Chapter 3: Rethinking the Quarrel Anew: Politics and Boasting in Aristophanes’ Clouds
What’s In a Boast? The Ubiquity of Laughter in Clouds
When Boasts Become Dangerous: The Nature of Politics
Clouds as a Defense of Political Life
Conclusion
Notes
Part II
Chapter 4: Persuasion in Comedy and Comic Persuasion: Aristophanes and the Mysteries of Rhetoric
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IV.
Notes
Chapter 5: Boundaries: The Comic Poet Confronts the “Who” of Political Action
The Acharnians
The Lysistrata
The Ecclesiazusae
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 6: Aristophanes and the Polis
The Knights and the Absurdity of Politics
Acharnians, Birds, and the Paradox of the City
The Frogs: Saving Athens through Comedy
Notes
Chapter 7: On the Anabasis of Trygaeus: An Introduction to Aristophanes’ Peace
Peace
Gods
Comedy
Notes
Chapter 8: Aristophanes’ Herodotean Inquiry: The Meaning of Athenian Imperialism in the Birds
Notes
Chapter 9: Learning the Lesson of Dionysus: Aristophanes’ Tragicomic Wisdom and Poetic Politics in the Frogs
A Divine Comedy: Contesting Divinity
A Political Tragedy: Contesting Great Poetry
Aristophanes’ Tragicomic Wisdom and Poetic Politics in the Frogs
Notes
Chapter 10: Wealth and the Theology of Charity
Chremylus and “Charity”
The Counterclaims of Poverty
Visitors to the New God: The Results of the Reform
Love and Money
Religion and Charity
Charity Undermines Justice
The Theology of Charity Is Secularizing
Notes
Part III
Chapter 11: Anger in Thucydides and Aristophanes: The Case of Cleon
The Comic Boastfulness of Cleon
Law, Anger, Necessity, and Eros
Justice and Necessity in Aristophanes: Our Split Nature
Anger/Waspishness in the Knights
Anger/Waspishness in the Wasps
Notes
Chapter 12: The Comedy of the Just City: Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen and Plato’s Republic
I. Introduction
II. Praxagora’s Design
III. The Platonic Adaption of Praxagora’s Design
IV. Aristophanes and Plato
Notes
Chapter 13: Peisetairos of Aristophanes’ Birds and the Erotic Tyrant of Republic IX
I. The Erotic Tyrant of Republic IX
II. Plato on Two Kinds of Eros
III. Tyrannical Eros in the Symposium
IV. Eros Tyrannos and Aristophanes’ Birds
V. Interpreting the Birds
VI. The Ancient Quarrel between Plato and Aristophanes?
Notes
Chapter 14: Aristophanes’ Feminine Comedies and Socratic Political Science
Introduction
Lysistrata and the Assembly of Women: Socratic Political Science
Lysistrata
Ecclesiazusae
Aristophanes’ Heroines and Socrates
The Thesmophoriazusae and the Clouds: The Fallout from Socrates’ Political Science
Thesmophoriazusae
Clouds
Conclusion
Notes
Part IV
Chapter 15: Leo Strauss’s UnSocratic Aristophanes?
I. Introduction
II. The Clouds
III. The Other Plays
IV. Conclusion
Notes
About the Authors
Index
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