Zmierzch komedii staroattyckiej? Wybrane problemy Plutosa Arystofanesa
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2011
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Wydawnictwo Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk
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Twilight of the Attic Old Comedy Era. Notes on Aristophanes’ Wealth
Abstract
The article is an attempt of interpretation of the main problems of the last saved comedy written by Aristophanes.
Personifications of wealth and poverty are a basic object of analysis. We can say that there is wealth and its
influence on life of citizens of Athens in the centre of Wealth’s problems. The author of the article gives some
opening remarks about Wealth in the context of Attic Old Comedy which is understood as theatrical/dramatic
genre. The statements of the commentators of Aristophanes as Angus M. Bowie, Kenneth J. Dover, Anna M.
Komornicka, Douglas M. MacDowell, Erich Segal, Martin Revermann or Tadeusz Zieliński are used in the
article in order to achieve a result of power of interpretation.
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Wealth is the last saved Aristophanes’ comedy. This is the presentation of problems of social inequalities
but personifications of poverty and wealth are also very important. The researcher’s attention
is focused on Wealth which is portrayed as the comedy of borderland. It is difficult to categorize
it as an example of Attic Old Comedy. And it is possible to think that the Aristophanes’ work belongs to
Greek Middle Comedy. Images of old-Greek gods: Wealth, Zeus, Hermes have fundamental weight
here. Also we can notice that Wealth is similar to fairy tale. It presents the vision of utopia which
makes possible escape from concerns about daily life.
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Aristophanes, Wealth, Greek comedy, Attic Old Comedy, Personifications in classic literature, Utopia
Citation
Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium, 2011, nr XXI/2, s. 51-62
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978-83-7654-181-5