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Aristophanes, Dikaiopolis and the Comic Mask of Phasis: An Unnoticed Legal Pun in Acharnians?
Fecha
2019Registro en:
Buis, Emiliano Jerónimo; Aristophanes, Dikaiopolis and the Comic Mask of Phasis: An Unnoticed Legal Pun in Acharnians?; Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre; 2019; 49-69
978-88-28-80303-4
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Autor
Buis, Emiliano Jerónimo
Resumen
This paper seeks to demonstrate that the repeated allusions to the procedure of *phasis* in Aristophanes' *Acharnians* can cast light onto the long-standing debate concerning the close relationship between the playwright and his comic hero. I contend that *Aristo-phanes* could have disguised his own identity under that of his hero *Dikaio-polis* and thus resorted to a subtle wordplay in order to claim justice on stage and counterattack Kleon's previous attempt to prosecute him.