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Pericles on Stage: Political Comedy in Aristophanes' Early Plays
(Hardcover, 1997)
Author: Michael Vickers
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0292787278
ISBN-13: 9780292787278
Jan 1997
Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr
255 pages
Language: English |
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| Size | | Length: | 255 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 24.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
Vickers (curator of Greek and Roman antiquities at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum) . . . finds references to Pericles and Alcibiades at every turn in the early plays of Aristophanes, which are thus 'political plays.' The general thesis is persuasive, but as Vickers heaps detail on detail, some of them convincing, many not, and reiterates them time and again (the book is relentlessly repetitious), the reader's belief is undermined, not strengthened. . . . The two chapters on the Birds seem to this reviewer the most challenging. In any event, Vickers' idea that Pericles 'cast a long shadow over both Athenian politics and drama after his death' will give graduate students and researchers material to wrestle with for some time to come.
Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company.
de Grummond
[A] challenging volume. . . . I find [Vickers'] approach unsatisfactory, not because I reject the premiss that Old Comedy is based on caricature of real individuals: there is good ancient evidence for covert caricature. But if the plays are built around caricature, then the plot must be a function of the aim of ridiculing the individuals caricatured. . . . Too often V. fails to show why his identification is amusing. . . . Still, V. has sometimes hit the nail on the head. His identification of the Sausage-Seller as Alkibiades in Chapter 6 seems correct to me. . . . His view that Demus represents a real individual (not Perikles) is also worth pursuing. . . . V.'s challenge to our assumption that we have the right structures within which to interpret these plays is timely. I applaud him as a pioneer who has crossed into the badlands with the wrong equipment and without allies.
Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company.
Sidwell
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