Aristophanes and politics: new studies

Review by Richard Martin, Stanford University, of Aristophanes and politics: new studies, edited by Ralph Rosen and Helene Foley*, at the Bryn Mawr Classical Review.

"Thankfully, these dozen essays transcend the tired questions (from the late 18th-century onward) of “Aristophanes’ politics” that subjected the playwright to the historical equivalent of Gallup polling.[1] Provocative and nuanced, most of them succeed in showing, by contrast, how the dramatist embodies and enacts a public role: Aristophanes is politics."

*Columbia studies in the classical tradition, volume 45. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. Pp. x, 286. ISBN 9789004424456.

See Aristophanes, Plays, Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 52 Vol., 1952) volume 5, (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 4.