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Aristophanes: Cavalry

Af: Professor Robert Tordoff Engelsk Hardback

Aristophanes: Cavalry

Af: Professor Robert Tordoff Engelsk Hardback
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Offering for the first time a student introduction to Aristophanes’ most explosive political satire, this volume is an essential guide to the context, themes and later reception of Cavalry. The ancient comedy is a fascinating insight into demagoguery and political rhetoric in classical Athens. These are subjects that resonate with a modern audience more now than ever before.

Originally performed in 424 BCE, Cavalry was the first play Aristophanes directed himself and it was awarded first prize. It targets the Athenian demagogue, Cleon, who had risen to prominence since the death of Pericles and to pre-eminence after an audacious victory over Sparta in 425 BCE. In Cavalry, Aristophanes attacks Cleon’s popularity with the masses, but also criticises the democracy itself as guilty of gullibility, self-interest and political shortsightedness. As the play shows, the only hope of escape from the crisis is for Athens to find a leader even more popular Cleon. And who better to be more foul-mouthed, depraved and shameless than a sausage-seller, if only because he turns out in the end to have a good heart and a true love of traditional Athenian values?

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Offering for the first time a student introduction to Aristophanes’ most explosive political satire, this volume is an essential guide to the context, themes and later reception of Cavalry. The ancient comedy is a fascinating insight into demagoguery and political rhetoric in classical Athens. These are subjects that resonate with a modern audience more now than ever before.

Originally performed in 424 BCE, Cavalry was the first play Aristophanes directed himself and it was awarded first prize. It targets the Athenian demagogue, Cleon, who had risen to prominence since the death of Pericles and to pre-eminence after an audacious victory over Sparta in 425 BCE. In Cavalry, Aristophanes attacks Cleon’s popularity with the masses, but also criticises the democracy itself as guilty of gullibility, self-interest and political shortsightedness. As the play shows, the only hope of escape from the crisis is for Athens to find a leader even more popular Cleon. And who better to be more foul-mouthed, depraved and shameless than a sausage-seller, if only because he turns out in the end to have a good heart and a true love of traditional Athenian values?

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 192
ISBN-13: 9781350065673
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1350065676
Kategori: Ancient Greece
Udg. Dato: 25 jan 2024
Længde: 17mm
Bredde: 224mm
Højde: 146mm
Forlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato: 25 jan 2024
Forfatter(e): Professor Robert Tordoff
Forfatter(e) Professor Robert Tordoff

Kategori Ancient Greece

ISBN-13 9781350065673

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 192

Udgave

Længde 17mm

Bredde 224mm

Højde 146mm

Udg. Dato 25 jan 2024

Oplagsdato 25 jan 2024

Forlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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