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Volume 24 - October 1977

Contents

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Research Article

  • Old Comedy and ‘;Character’: Some Comments

  • R. G. Ussher
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. 71-79

  • Modern Aristophanic scholarship is based on the belief that Aristophanes' plays are funny. Such a belief has not been universal; in antiquity, his characters and their language were regarded, at times, with strong distaste. Aristotle, for one, was not amused: indeed, he would have thought Aristophanophiles scarce gentlemen, since only an ⋯παίδευτος (an uneducated man) could relish the Old Comedy's γέλοια (E.N 1128 17 ff.). The pleasures appropriate to ignorance and learning could be seen (he contended) by comparing the old comedies (whose laughter was raised by α⋯σχρολογία, ‘obscenity’) and the new (which, achieving this same goal by ὑπόνοια, was fitter for gentlemen and scholars). Old Comedy's adherents, in fact, countenance buffoonery, and that is vastly different from wit (E.N. 1128a 15; Rh. 1419b 8).

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Front matter

  • GAR volume 24 issue 2 Front matter

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. f1-f3
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