Geometry of Allusions: The Reception of Earlier Poetry in Aristophanes’ <i>Peace</i>

Konstantakos, Ioannis M.

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“…in general, aristophanes likes to fuse various different genres, forms, and modes of the comic tradition in order to create his composite plots. Within the framework of a single play, he may string together individual scenes which reflect, as applicable in each case, the fairy-tale comic fictions in the style of Crates and Pherecrates, the epicharmean or Pherecratean comedy of characters and social customs, the political satire characteristic of Cratinus and eupolis, or folk and subliterary forms of comic spectacle, such as Megarian farces, phallic dances, and low-brow popular mime (see Konstantakos 2021;Konstantakos 2022, 133-136).…”

Section: Aristophanes and His Vignettes Of Myth Burlesquementioning

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Mythological Burlesque, Parody, and Literary Games, from Epicharmus to Aristophanes

Konstantakos

2024

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The literary history of mythological comedy, from Epicharmus, the inventor of the genre, to the Attic dramatists, is permeated by intertextual relations and cross-references between individual authors. Cratinus took over the Epicharmean form of myth burlesque and combined it with political satire of Athenian public life. Cratinus’ mythical plays owe to Epicharmus a number of comic themes and dramaturgical patterns: the portrayal of the cannibalistic Cyclops as a gourmet, the games of disguise and role-playing, the sophisticated meta-literary exploitation of the epic tradition and of the spectators’ Homeric knowledge. Aristophanes avoided full-scale myth burlesque in his acme, but he included individual vignettes of mythical parody in his complex polyphonic plots. The scene of the three gods’ embassy at the finale of the Birds employs all the typical techniques of mythological comedy.

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Section: Aristophanes and His Vignettes Of Myth Burlesquementioning

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Mythological Burlesque, Parody, and Literary Games, from Epicharmus to Aristophanes

Konstantakos

2024

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Geometry of Allusions: The Reception of Earlier Poetry in Aristophanes’ Peace

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Mythological Burlesque, Parody, and Literary Games, from Epicharmus to Aristophanes

Mythological Burlesque, Parody, and Literary Games, from Epicharmus to Aristophanes

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