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Appendix 3 - Timeline and proposed relationships between comedies

from PART III - APPENDICES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2010

Keith Sidwell
Affiliation:
University of Calgary
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Summary

This list is an attempt to pull together for ease of reference various suggestions made in the course of the argument. The evidence for the relationships and relative dates is discussed in the text and is not repeated here. Everything (apart from a few solid dates and one or two names of characters) is conjectural. However, it is worth mentioning again that the basis for the conjectures made is: (1) the centrality of on-stage caricature in Old Comedy; (2) the hypothesis that antagonism between poets was based on the real political agenda of each participant; (3) that poets were themselves on-stage targets; (4) that therefore their plays formed part and parcel of the attempt to satirise each other's political postures and circles; (5) that we can spot the points where such antagonistic misappropriations are being made by a number of methods which include: (a) looking for scenes which contradict Aristophanes' parabatic strictures (they are parodic); (b) finding close linguistic or thematic relationships between extant plays and the fragments of rival comedies; (c) tracking passages of ‘self-imitation’ (they are parodying specific material from a rival poet or poets).

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Aristophanes the Democrat
The Politics of Satirical Comedy during the Peloponnesian War
, pp. 341 - 345
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009

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