10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARABASES»
Discover the use of
parabases in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
parabases and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Aristophanes the Democrat: The Politics of Satirical Comedy ...
First of all, only five parabases (those of Ach., Knights, Clouds, Wasps and Peace
) purport to be representing — directly or indirectly — the author's own views. The
parabases of Birds, Thesmophoriazusai, and Frogs are all made in the ...
2
A Companion to Greek Rhetoric
... Wasps 1030–1036, Peace 739–748, 752–759, Clouds 537–559). Every one of
the five parabases from Acharnians to Peace, including the later second version
of Clouds, fashions itself as the poet's self- defense either against attacks by his ...
A comparison of the Parabases of the Achar- nians, Knights, Clouds and Wasps
will illustrate this. It is not therefore likely that in the case of those against whom
his main attacks were made, Cleon for instance and Socrates, he speaks of them
...
Aristophane, William Charles Green,
1868
4
Cratinus and the Art of Comedy
410s, the evidence suggests that a number of main parabases, not only the
extant ones from Birds and thereafter but much earlier, were not poet-centred. Fr.
105 from Cratinus' Malthakoi (before 422/1 BC) almost certainly comes from the ...
5
Aristophanes: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
For the parabases, Imperio 2004 and Totaro 2000 (for double parabases) offer
detailed examinations. Hubbard 1991 has a broader interpretation of the function
of the parabasis in Aristophanes, while Sifakis 1992 provides a model for the ...
Oxford University Press,
2010
As with the agon, a formal pattern can be detected, although Aristophanes'
parabases vary from comedy to comedy. The full structure is best found in the
parabases of Clouds, Wasps, and Birds. I will use the first as a model: [a] song,
often ...
Aristophanes, Peter Meineck,
2000
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Aristophanes 1: Clouds, Wasps, Birds:
As with the agon, a formal pattern can be detected, although Aristophanes'
parabases vary from comedy to comedy. The full structure is best found in the
parabases of Wasps and Birds. I will use the former as a model: [a] song, often
directed to ...
Aristophanes, Peter Meineck,
1998
8
No Laughing Matter: Studies in Athenian Comedy
First and foremost we need to be much more circumspect about taking the
parabasis (esp. Clouds 520-5) to heart. As Major has argued, it shares features
and tone with a number of other Aristophanic parabases.30 As a general rule,
again, ...
C.W. Marshall, George Kovacs,
2012
9
Aristophanes: An Introduction
The topics discussed in parabases are hugely diverse: we learn about
Aristophanes' rivalries with Cleon in the parabases of all five plays from the 420s,
for example, and we are also offered views on other comic poets (e.g. in Clouds
and ...
10
Aristophanes: An Author for the Stage
Who knows, the hypothetical rhythm of music apart, whether timeacceleration
during the parabasis was indicated in some way at the resumption of the stage-
action? It is certainly true that after the major parabases in which time is
accelerated ...
Carlo Ferdinando Russo,
2002