Contents 6
Introduction 10
Part I 20
Chapter 1: Seeing Democracy in the Clouds 22
I. 22
II. 24
III. 27
IV. 30
V. 32
Notes 33
Chapter 2: The Meaning of Socrates’ Asceticism in Aristophanes’ Clouds 38
I. 40
II. 45
III. 48
IV. 49
V. 51
Notes 52
Chapter 3: Rethinking the Quarrel Anew: Politics and Boasting in Aristophanes’ Clouds 56
What’s In a Boast? The Ubiquity of Laughter in Clouds 59
When Boasts Become Dangerous: The Nature of Politics 65
Clouds as a Defense of Political Life 70
Conclusion 73
Notes 74
Part II 76
Chapter 4: Persuasion in Comedy and Comic Persuasion: Aristophanes and the Mysteries of Rhetoric 78
I. 78
II. 82
III. 85
IV. 90
Notes 93
Chapter 5: Boundaries: The Comic Poet Confronts the “Who” of Political Action 98
The Acharnians 101
The Lysistrata 106
The Ecclesiazusae 112
Conclusion 115
Notes 116
Chapter 6: Aristophanes and the Polis 118
The Knights and the Absurdity of Politics 123
Acharnians, Birds, and the Paradox of the City 126
The Frogs: Saving Athens through Comedy 132
Notes 134
Chapter 7: On the Anabasis of Trygaeus: An Introduction to Aristophanes’ Peace 146
Peace 147
Gods 152
Comedy 161
Notes 163
Chapter 8: Aristophanes’ Herodotean Inquiry: The Meaning of Athenian Imperialism in the Birds 170
Notes 188
Chapter 9: Learning the Lesson of Dionysus: Aristophanes’ Tragicomic Wisdom and Poetic Politics in the Frogs 192
A Divine Comedy: Contesting Divinity 194
A Political Tragedy: Contesting Great Poetry 197
Aristophanes’ Tragicomic Wisdom and Poetic Politics in the Frogs 205
Notes 208
Chapter 10: Wealth and the Theology of Charity 210
Chremylus and “Charity” 212
The Counterclaims of Poverty 215
Visitors to the New God: The Results of the Reform 217
Love and Money 220
Religion and Charity 224
Charity Undermines Justice 227
The Theology of Charity Is Secularizing 230
Notes 232
Part III 236
Chapter 11: Anger in Thucydides and Aristophanes: The Case of Cleon 238
The Comic Boastfulness of Cleon 239
Law, Anger, Necessity, and Eros 242
Justice and Necessity in Aristophanes: Our Split Nature 254
Anger/Waspishness in the Knights 258
Anger/Waspishness in the Wasps 261
Notes 264
Chapter 12: The Comedy of the Just City: Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen and Plato’s Republic 268
I. Introduction 268
II. Praxagora’s Design 269
III. The Platonic Adaption of Praxagora’s Design 276
IV. Aristophanes and Plato 279
Notes 281
Chapter 13: Peisetairos of Aristophanes’ Birds and the Erotic Tyrant of Republic IX 284
I. The Erotic Tyrant of Republic IX 286
II. Plato on Two Kinds of Eros 290
III. Tyrannical Eros in the Symposium 293
IV. Eros Tyrannos and Aristophanes’ Birds 297
V. Interpreting the Birds 301
VI. The Ancient Quarrel between Plato and Aristophanes? 304
Notes 305
Chapter 14: Aristophanes’ Feminine Comedies and Socratic Political Science 312
Introduction 312
Lysistrata and the Assembly of Women: Socratic Political Science 318
Lysistrata 319
Ecclesiazusae 323
Aristophanes’ Heroines and Socrates 324
The Thesmophoriazusae and the Clouds: The Fallout from Socrates’ Political Science 326
Thesmophoriazusae 327
Clouds 329
Conclusion 332
Notes 333
Part IV 338
Chapter 15: Leo Strauss’s UnSocratic Aristophanes? 340
I. Introduction 340
II. The Clouds 342
III. The Other Plays 346
IV. Conclusion 358
Notes 359
About the Authors 362
Index 366

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