CHAPTER 9 Alcibiades at Sparta: Aristophanes' Birds I

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE ix
4. ABBREVIATIONS xiii
5. NICIAS, LAMACHUS, ANDALCIBIADES Political Allegory in Aristophanes xv
6. CHAPTER 1 Pericles and Alcibiades on Stage 1
7. CHAPTER 2 Pericles and Alcibiades at the Phrontistery: Aristophanes' Clouds 1 22
8. CHAPTER 3 Pericles, Alcibiades, and the Generation Gap: Aristophanes' Clouds II 42
9. CHAPTER 4 Pericles on the Pnyx: Aristophanes' Acharnians I 59
10. CHAPTER 5 Pericles in the Agora: Aristophanes' Acharnians II 77
11. CHAPTER 6 Pericles, the Typhoon, and the Hurricane: Aristophanes' Knights 97
12. CHAPTER 7 Pericles, Alcibiades, the Law Courts, and the Symposium: Aristophanes' Wasps 121
13. CHAPTER 8 Alcibiades and Pericles on Olympus: Aristophanes' Peace 139
14. CHAPTER 9 Alcibiades at Sparta: Aristophanes' Birds I 154
15. CHAPTER 10 Pericles at Sparta: Aristophanes' Birds II 171
16. CONCLUSION 190
17. APPENDIX A Posthumous Parody in Cratinus' Dionysalexandros 193
18. APPENDIX B The Athenian Plague of 430-428 B.C 196
19. BIBLIOGRAPHY 199
20. GENERAL INDEX 221
21. INDEX LOCORUM 231