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Aeschylus
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek comedy
Antihero
Aristophanes
Atticism
Author_Gonda A.H. Van Steen
Byzantine Empire
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Censorship
Cinesias (character)
Culture and Society
Culture of Greece
Demagogue
Dionysia
Edmond Rostand
Edmund Keeley
Epigram
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Isocrates
Karolos Koun
Longus
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Ludwig Tieck
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Product details
- ISBN 9780691009568
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 19 Mar 2000
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Aristophanes has enjoyed a conspicuous revival in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greece. Here, Gonda Van Steen provides the first critical analysis of the role of the classical Athenian playwright in modern Greek culture, explaining how the sociopolitical "venom" of Aristophanes' verses remains relevant and appealing to modern Greek audiences. Deriding or challenging well-known figures and conservative values, Aristophanes' comedies transgress authority and continue to speak to many social groups in Greece who have found in him a witty, pointed, and accessible champion from their "native" tradition. The book addresses the broader issues reflected in the poet's revival: political and linguistic nationalism, literary and cultural authenticity versus creativity, censorship, and social strife.
Van Steen's discussion ranges from attitudes toward Aristophanes before and during Greece's War of Independence in the 1820s to those during the Cold War, from feminist debates to the significance of the popular music integrated into comic revival productions, from the havoc transvestite adaptations wreaked on gender roles to the political protest symbolized by Karolos Koun's directorial choices. Crossing boundaries of classical philology, critical theory, and performance studies, the book encourages us to reassess Aristophanes' comedies as both play-acts and modern methods of communication. Van Steen uses material never before accessible in English as she proves that Aristophanes remains Greece's immortal comic genius and political voice.
Gonda A. H. Van Steen is Assistant Professor of Classics and Modern Greek at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
