Personalities in Aristophanes

H. F. Hose

doi:10.1017/S001738350000677X

Personalities in Aristophanes

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H. F. Hose

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The Old Comedy, says Plutarch, is unsuitable for reading to a dinner-party taking their wine; it is ill regulated, violent, and sometimes indecent; moreover, it would require a commentator to explain the personal allusions and we should be in school again. These allusions are perhaps even more obscure to us; yet we read our Aristophanes, and what we have of Menander would not make us agree with Plutarch's decided preference for the New Comedy. And they have an interest of their own in giving us glimpses of some of the prominent figures in Athenian life and of the objects of public mockery or reprobation; for Aristophanes would make sure that his personal references were such as to secure applause, and most of them occur in the other comedians of the time.

Type: Research Article
Information: Greece & Rome , Volume 9 , Issue 26 , February 1940 , pp. 88 - 95

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S001738350000677X [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Classical Association 1940

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^{page 88 note 1} Qu. Conv. 8. 3.

^{page 89 note 1} Ar. Vesp. 22.

^{page 90 note 1} Ar. Av. 288.

^{page 90 note 2} Ar. Av. 1481.

^{page 90 note 3} Ar. Pax, 1295.

^{page 90 note 4} Ar. Nub. 400.

^{page 90 note 5} Ar. Pax, 446.

^{page 90 note 6} Ar. Ach. 84, 88.

^{page 90 note 7} Ar. Eq. 1299.

^{page 90 note 8} Ar. Nub. 675.

^{page 90 note 9} Ar. Vesp. 74, 466, 1267.

^{page 90 note 10} Per. fr. 1.

^{page 90 note 11} Ar. Vesp. 1273.

^{page 90 note 12} Ar. Ach. 887, Vesp. 506, 1142.

^{page 90 note 13} Ar. Ach. 855.

^{page 91 note 1} Ar. fr. 198.

^{page 91 note 2} Ar. Vesp. 787.

^{page 91 note 3} Ar. Pax, 395, Lys. 490, fr. 81, Av. 1556.

^{page 91 note 4} Symp. 2. 14.

^{page 91 note 5} Ar. Ach. 1071 foll., 1190 foll.

^{page 91 note 6} Ar. Pax, 473, 304.

^{page 91 note 7} Ar. Thesm. 841, Ran. 1039.

^{page 91 note 8} Ar. Eq. 562, Lys. 804, Pax, 347.

^{page 91 note 9} Tax. fr. 3.

^{page 92 note 1} Schol. Ar. Pax, 347.

^{page 92 note 2} Ar. Eq. 997 foll.

^{page 92 note 3} Ar. Eq. 1085.

^{page 92 note 4} Plut. Lys. 22, Per. 32.

^{page 92 note 5} Ar. Nub. 352.

^{page 93 note 1} Ar. AV. 521, Vesp. 83, Plat. Apol. 21E.

^{page 93 note 2} Ar. Vesp. 1019 and Schol.

^{page 93 note 3} Agr. fr. 4.

^{page 93 note 4} Plat. Gorg. 502A.

^{page 93 note 5} Ar. Av. 766.

^{page 93 note 6} Ar. Av. 1377, fr. 149.

^{page 93 note 7} Athen. 551D.

^{page 93 note 8} Schol. on Ar. Av. 31.

^{page 93 note 9} De glor. Ath. 5.

^{page 93 note 10} Ar. Av. 1372, Ran. 153.

^{page 94 note 1} Cheir. fr. 1.

^{page 94 note 2} Ar. Thesm. 168, Schol. on Vesp. 462.

^{page 94 note 3} Ar. Av. 1295.

^{page 94 note 4} Athen. 22A.

^{page 94 note 5} Ar. Pax, 789.

^{page 94 note 6} 86.

^{page 94 note 7} Ar. Ran. 151.

^{page 94 note 8} Ar. Thesm. 170.

^{page 94 note 9} Ar. Ach. 11.

^{page 94 note 10} Alexis, fr. 179.

^{page 94 note 11} Ar. Thesm. 88 foll.

^{page 94 note 12} Ar. Plut. 602, Thesm. 949.

^{page 95 note 1} V.H. 14, 15.

^{page 95 note 2} Ar. Nub. 504, Av. 1296.

^{page 95 note 3} Ar. Ach. 1166, Av. 1490.

^{page 95 note 4} Ar. Ran. 709.

^{page 95 note 5} Ar. Plut. 177.

^{page 95 note 6} Ar. Plut. 884.

^{page 95 note 7} Ar. Plut. 800.

^{page 95 note 8} Ar. Plut. 180.

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