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Aeschylus
Prometheus Boundis a play beloved of revolutionaries, romantics and rebels, with a fierce optimism tempered by an acute awareness of the compromises, dangers and obsessions of political action. This companion sets the play in its historical context, explores its challenge to authority, and traces its reception from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Many scholars have disputed its Aeschylean authorship, but it has proved the most influential of tragedies outside academia. Marx's favourite tragedy,Prometheus Boundis also a foundational text for the genre of science fiction through its influence on Mary Shelley'sFrankenstein. In its open-eyed celebration of technology and democracy, it is the tragedy for the modern age.
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Stop Making Sense: The Politics of Aristophanic Madness
This paper discusses the use of madness in Aristophanic Comedy, and in particular how it is used as a means of evaluating and interrogating political interventions. The well-known theme of madness in Aristophanes’s Wasps provides the frame. Interpreting Philocleon’s madness has proved problematic because the complexity of comic madness has been under-estimated. Against negative models of madness that dominate in tragedy and in political discourse, madness in comedy can be not only a means of interrogating ideological and political norms, but also a constructive and even heroic form of behavior, which draws on epic and religious associations. Bdelycleon’s attempt to cure his father removes the positive substance and political value that anchors his father’s insanity, which leads to the aporetic finale.
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Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound is a play beloved of revolutionaries, romantics and rebels, with a fierce optimism tempered by an acute awareness of the compromises, dangers and obsessions of political action.
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A total write-off. Aristophanes, Cratinus, and the rhetoric of comic competition
The rivalry between comic poets remains one of the great gaps in the understanding of Old Comedy. Nothing illustrates this better than Aristophanes' many responses to the third place of \"Clouds\" at the Dionysia of 424/3 B.C. The relationship between Arisotophanes and Cratinus can be seen as paradigmatic of comic intertextuality in general.
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