Aristophanes: Wasps and Other Plays (original) (raw)

(review) Z. P. Biles - S. D. Olson: Aristophanes, Wasps

A detailed review of a recent commented edition of Wasps, offering detailed comparison with MacDowell’s commentary and Wilson’s OCT text, with remarks on textual criticism and interpretations of various verses of the play.

Space in Aristophanes: Portraying the Civic and Domestic Worlds in Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps

Columbia University, 2013

This study explores the treatment of the scenic and diegetic space in Aristophanes’ Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps, and the comedies’ attitude towards a variety of domestic and civic spaces, taking into consideration the cultural context in which the plays were composed. I argue that by using visual creativity and the available staging resources, Aristophanes calls attention to the consequences of the Peloponnesian war on the Athenians’ civic and domestic life. Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps all literalize in an imaginative way the impact of the polis, along with its civic policies and its dysfunctional institutions – the assembly, the agora, the boule, the lawcourts –, on the oikos and the householder, and explore what happens to the oikos together with its implications for the polis when the oikos loses its place of prominence.

P. Roche's Aristophanes: The Complete Plays (2005)

Mouseion 53, pp. 85-89, 2009

Roche's translations of Aristophanes's eleven surviving comedic plays are provided in a handy and cheap book for students; however this work should be used with great caution due to numerous mistakes and liberties in the text and notes.

Tragic and Epic Visions of the Oikos in Aristophanes' Wasps

Classical World, 2019

This article argues that Aristophanes' use of paratragedy and paraepic helps define Philocleon's and Bdelycleon's pointedly opposing views of themselves and their household. Bdelycleon conceives of his household as his property that he needs to protect, keeping his father, who the play likens to a female tragic heroine, safely guarded inside. Philocleon, by contrast, sees himself as a masculine epic hero, and invites us to consider whether the head of his household is despotic and anti-democratic, like a Trojan (Eastern) king or a Cyclops.

The Politics of Aristophanes' Wasps

Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-), 1985

... Page 2. David Konstan it is described as a form of eros, the strongest term in Greek for an obstinate and unruly passion (89, 753), and the term phileliastes is coined to name it (88). It is clear what Aristophanes is depicting here: an obsession. ...