Aristophanes and Alcibiades by Vickers, Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Table of contents Preface Abbreviations Chapter 1 Political Allegory in Aristophanes

“Emphasis” Alcibiades’ Violence Alcibiades’ Speech Defect; Legal Constraints on Comedy The κωμῳδούμενοι The Problem with Political Allegory Ambiguity in Greece Aristophanes’ Sophisticated Audience Polymorphic Characterization

Chapter 2 Wordplay; Pericles, Alcibiades and Aspasia on Stage

Wordplay, History and Ambiguity Alcibiades and Pericles Pericles’ Reputation Aristophanes and Politics The Text of Aristophanes

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

Acharnians (425 BC) Knights (424 BC) Clouds (423 BC) Wasps (422 BC) Peace (421 BC) Birds (414 BC)

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

Euripides Ion Ion and Alcibiades Sophocles Ajax and Alcibiades Pericles and Delphi Aspasia the Ionian

Chapter 5 Happy Families: Plutus i

The κωμῳδούμενοι The Opening Scene Wealth Declares Himself

Chapter 6 Home Economics: Plutus ii

Poverty The Visit to Asclepius The Honest Man and the Sycophant Ménage à trois Hermes and the Priest of Zeus The Finale

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

Chronology “Archipiada” Egypt Love, Honour and Beauty Theonoe, Piety and Purification; Teucer Menelaus Theoclymenus The Second Stasimon Shaving, Sacrifice and Sobriety Andromeda

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

Alcibiades and Samos Caryatids and Tyranny The Opening Scene of Lysistrata Lysistrata’s masculine characterization Lampito Generals at Samos Cinesias and Myrrhine

Chapter 9 Alcibiades in Gaol: Thesmophoriazusae

The Date of the Play The dramatis personae (i) The Kinsman (ii) Euripides (iii) Agathon (iv) The Scythian Archer The Interview with Agathon The Festival, etc. Palamedes, Helen and Andromeda Thucydides’ End

Chapter 10 Frogs: Nothing to Do With Literature

Dionysus’ Question Lions in the State and Aeschylus Losing Little Oiljars Exiles and Euripides Dionysus, Xanthias, Heracles Why Does Aeschylus Win?

Chapter 11 Aspasia on Stage: Ecclesiazusae

Aspasia in the Fourth Century Polymorphic Characterization Pericles, Alcibiades Aspasia, Alcibiades and Hipparete Speaking Names Hipparete, Aspasia and Alcibiades Aspasia, Plato and Aristotle

Conclusion Appendix 1 Alcibiades’ “Servile Birth”, Alcibiades’ “Matrophilia”: Inventions of the Stage?

“He loved his mother” Servile Origins Aspasia Again Clever Slaves

Appendix 2 The Athenian Plague of 430–428 BC Appendix 3 Keith Sidwell’s Aristophanes the Democrat Endnotes Bibliography Index Locorum General Index