APPENDIX 5. The Death of the Parabasis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Abbreviations xi
5. CHAPTER 1. Comedy and Self-Knowledge 1
6. CHAPTER 2. The Intertextual Parabasis 16
7. CHAPTER 3. The Mask of Dicaeopolis 41
8. CHAPTER 4. Aristophanes and the Poetry of Hate 60
9. CHAPTER 5. Misunderstood Intellectuals and Misunderstood Poets 88
10. CHAPTER 6. A Quarrel with the Jury 113
11. CHAPTER 7. The Flight of the Dung Beetle 140
12. CHAPTER 8. From Birds to Frogs 157
13. CHAPTER 9. Comic Autobiography and the Mask of Aristophanes 220
14. APPENDIX 1. Aristophanes and Callistratus 227
15. APPENDIX 2. Ben Jonson and the Clouds Parabasis 231
16. APPENDIX 3. The Identity of the Chorus in the Peace 241
17. APPENDIX 4. Political Allusions and the Chronology of the Lysistrata and Thesmophoriazusae 243
18. APPENDIX 5. The Death of the Parabasis 246
19. Bibliography 253
20. General Index 271
21. Index of Passages Discussed 277