A total write-off. Aristophanes, cratinus, and the rhetoric of comic competition

Classical Quarterly

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 138-163

  Ruffell, Ian ^a  

^a CHRIST CHURCH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 60949941202     PISSN: 00098388     EISSN: 14716844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cq/52.1.138     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. L. P. E. Parker, 'Eupolis or Dicaeopolis?' JHS 111 (1991), 203-8
2. For a survey of both questions, see P. Totaro, Le seconde parabasi di Aristofane. Drama 8 (Stuttgart, 1999), 197-207
3. K. Sidvvell, 'Authorial collaboration? Aristophanes' Knights and Eupolis', GRBS 34 (1993), 365-89
4. id., 'Aristophanes' Acharnians and Eupolis', C&M 45 (1994), 71-115
5. id., 'Poetic rivalry and the caricature of comic poets: Cratinus' Pytine and Aristophanes' Wasps', BICS Suppl. 66 (1995), 56-80
6. See especially M. Silk, Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy (Oxford, 2000)
7. Cf. J. Palmer, The Logic of the Absurd (London, 1987)
8. For Plato's complex relationship to comedy, see A. W. Nightingale, Genres in Dialogue (Cambridge, 1995), 172-92
9. Cf. M. Vickers, Pericles on Stage (Austin, 1998), with bibliography
10. S. Halliwell, 'Comic satire and freedom of speech in classical Athens', JHS 111 (1991), 48-70, argues strongly that the overwhelming majority of these are misinterpretations of comic texts
11. See M. Rose, Parody Ancient, Modern and Post-modern (Cambridge, 1993)
12. S. Goldhill, The Poet's Voice (Cambridge, 1991), ch. 3
13. E. L. Bowie, 'Who is Dicaeopolis?', JHS 108 (1988), 183-5, with responses by Parker (n. 2)
14. Cratinus, inc. fab. fr. 361 (Ecphantides)
15. See Palmer (n. 8), 97-113
16. I. Ruffell, 'The world turned upside down: Utopia and Utopianism in the fragments of old comedy', in Harvey and Wilkins (n. 5), 473-505, with bibliography
17. See A. H. Sommerstein, 'Platon, Eupolis and the "demagogue comedy"', in Harvey and Wilkins (n. 5), 437-51, who, however, argues that the Phrynichus burlesque was an earlier play not aimed at Hyperbolus
18. Cf. D. E. O'Regan, Rhetoric, Comedy and the Violence of Language in Aristophanes' Clouds (Oxford, 1992), 133-9
19. For the (enigmatic) references to the Knights in Acharnians, see 5-8, 202-4
20. So T. K. Hubbard, The Mask of Comedy (Ithaca and London, 1991), 74
21. For other recent bibliography on Aristophanes and Cratinus, see Heath (n. 2), 150-1
22. R. M. Rosen, 'Cratinus' Pytine and the construction of the comic self, in Harvey and Wilkins (n. 5), 23-39
23. For the thematization of wine imagery, see L. Edmunds, 'Aristophanes' Acharnians', YCS 26 (1980), 1-41
24. See Ruffell (n. 18), 481-3
25. Cf. Bremer (n. 1), 160-4
26. Birds 405 (apparently, though the text is corrupt)
27. Cf. Ploutus 45
28. See R. W. Brock, 'The double plot in Aristophanes' Knights', GRBS 27 (1986), 15-27, with bibliography
29. 2 (Paris, 1965), 348-50
30. On transworld identification, see U. Eco, The Role of the Reader (London, 1981)
31. T. Pavel, Fictional Worlds (Cambridge, MA, 1986)
32. G. Currie, The Nature of Fiction (Cambridge, 1990), 127-81
33. For proper names, see especially R. Ronen, Possible Worlds in Literary Theory (Cambridge, 1994), 130-43
34. For an extreme allegorist position, see J. Schwarze, Die Beurteilung des Perikles durch die attische Komödie und ihre historische und historiographische Bedeutung. Zetemata 51 (Munich, 1971)
35. for the more cautious pole, K. J. Dover, Aristophanic Comedy (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1972), 217-18
36. Hermippus, Moirai fr. 42, Telecleides, fr. 18 (cf. fr. 48)
37. M. Revermann, 'Cratinus' Dionysalexandros and the head of Pericles', JHS 117 (1997), 197-200
38. cf. D. Welsh, CQ 29 (1979), 214-15
39. For contemporary attacks on Pheidias, see Peace 605, with Σ ad loc, Plutarch, Pericles 31
40. Eupolis, Prospaltioi fr. 207 (Helen)
41. Philoi fr. 294, (?Omphale)
42. cf. Pericles 32 on Aspasia 'prosecuted' by Hermippus
43. See further Ruffell (n. 18), 475-81
44. J. N. Davidson, Courtesans and Fishcakes (London, 1997), 36-69
45. See also Phrynikhos fr. 74
46. a caricature developed (if not necessarily started) by his rivals (Eupolis, Chrusoun Genos fr. 298
47. Telecleides, inc. fab. fr. 46)
48. Sidwell (n. 5, 1993), 376-7, revives Pieters's idea of a debate between Eupolis and Aristophanes
49. See also Metagenes fr. 15
50. Cf. Gilbert Norwood, '"Episodes" in old comedy', CP 25 (1930), 217-29
51. M. Heath, Unity in Greek Poetics (Oxford, 1989), 49-55, 157-8
52. cf. F. D. Harvey, 'Sick humour in Aristophanes', Mnemosyne 24 (1971), 362-5