Democratic swarms : ancient comedy and the politics of the people /

This book revisits the role of Greek comedy in ancient politics and how it has been overlooked as a political medium by modern theorists and critics. It critiques the neglect that Greek comedy has suffered due to our great affection for tragedy as a model of democracy and offers a remedy. The Greeks...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	DuBois, Page (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2022].
Subjects:	Greek drama (Comedy) > History and criticism. Greek drama (Comedy) > Political aspects. Drama > Chorus (Greek drama) Democracy > Greece > Athens.

Table of Contents:

The tragic individual: the tyranny of Oedipus and Antigone
The swarm
Chorus
Utopias
Parrhesia: saying it all
Democracy, communalism, communism
Epilogue: the politics of the present.