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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5918)Modernity is a pressing concern for those connected with Classics. As the worlds of Athens and Rome slip further into the ancient past, how strong--one might ask--is the cord that connects us to those places in that...
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From:Independent Review (Vol. 25, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedOn my way to an evening class, my eye caught an interesting poster on the hall bulletin board. In its most recent efforts to rehabilitate my retrograde moral sensibility, Fordham University advertised that it would now...
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From:Social Research (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI'm not an activist. I'm a comedian. --Jon Stewart (2011) If Aristophanes was working for reform, as a long line of learned interpreters of the poet have maintained, the result was lamentably disappointing: he...
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From:Illinois Classical Studies (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis paper argues that Euripides in Cresphontes (produced probably in 424 B.C.E.) and Aristophanes in Farmers (423 B.C.E.) and Peace (421 B.C.E.) reflect and promote the plan of the peace enthusiasts in Athens to...
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From:Akroterion (Vol. 57) Peer-ReviewedThe term 'magic realism', normally reserved for twentieth-century novels with a mixture of realistic and fantastic elements, has not, to my knowledge, been applied to the comedies of Aristophanes. In this article I...
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From:The Classical Journal (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAristophanes' parody of Euripides' Andromeda (Th. 1011-1100) allows for more recovery of the blocking of both the parody and original than has been recognized. Inlaw in the parody (Andromeda in the original) should be...
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From:Comparative Drama (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe thirteenth-century Egyptian playwright Ibn Daniyal is slowly coming to Western attention as one of the most important dramatists of the Middle Ages. The fact that he wrote for the puppet theater, a form often...