Aristophanes the Democrat: The Politics of Satirical Comedy During the Peloponnesian War Book

Detail of illustration viii

Preface ix

Acknowledgements xii

List of abbreviations xiv

Part I Setting The Stage 1

1 Getting to grips with the politics of Old Comedy 3

2 Metacomedy and politics 31

3 Metacomedy and caricature 45

Part II The Poets' War 105

4 Acharnians: Parabasis versus play 107

5 Metacomedy, caricature and politics from Knights to Peace 155

6 Metacomedy, caricature and politics from Autolycus to Frogs 217

Conclusions and consequences 299

Part III Appendices 303

Appendix 1 The view from the theatron 305

Appendix 2 Metacomedy and caricature in the surviving fourth-century plays of Aristophanes 337

Appendix 3 Timeline and proposed relationships between comedies 341

Appendix 4 The date of Eupolis' Taxiarchoi 346

Appendix 5 Clouds 868-73 and τρανλιζω 349

Appendix 6 Michael VickerS on Strepsiades and Pericles 350

Bibliography 352

Index 363

Index Locorum 382

Index of Modern Scholars 406