Citizens on stage : comedy and political culture in the Athenian democracy /

• Main Author: McGlew, James F., 1955- (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2002.
• Subjects: Ιθαγένεια > Ελλάδα > Αθήνα > Ιστορία; Κωμωδία > Πολιτικές απόψεις > Ελλάδα > Αθήνα > Ιστορία; Δημοκρατία > Ελλάδα > Αθήνα > Ιστορία

"In Citizens on Stage, James F. McGlew analyzes Athenian Old Comedy as a model for understanding political life in Athens during the late fifth and early fourth century B.C. During this period, new notions of political participation developed - both supportive of democracy, and hostile to it -...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Conflicting Images of Democratic Citizenship
• 1. Exposing Hypocrisy: Pericles and Cratinus's Dionysalexandros
• 2. Acting Out Fantasies: Acharnians and Comic Politics
• 3. "Everybody Wants to Make a Speech": Cleon and Aristophanes on Fantasy and Leadership
• 4. Politics on the Margins: The Hetaireiai in 415 B.C.
• 5. Politics of the Commons Revisited: Lysistrata and Frogs
• 6. Dramatic Visions of Wealth and Youth: Assemblywomen, Wealth, and Their Modern Critics
• Conclusion: In Defense of Desire.