The good adviser: poetry and politics in Aristophanes Frogs

• Grant number: 12/24857-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: June 01, 2013
• End date: February 29, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Classical Languages
• Principal Investigator: Adriane da Silva Duarte
• Grantee: Milena de Oliveira Faria
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This Project aims to make a study on the political references inside Aristophanes'Frogs. The Hypothesis of the play points that it has been reenacted due to good advices it brought in its parabasis (675-737), which recommended that the citizenship rights of the citizens who had made some mistake were given back to them and that the citizen-body turn back to men of known integrity, from noble and wealthy family, well educated. There is a common sense that those citizens were the ones who had lost their rights in 411, for being members of the oligarchic wing. Thus, if we remember that the play was reenacted probably in the Lenaia of 404 b.C, the advices given by it in its parabasis had helped the oligarchs to reach, once more, the power. Frogs nonetheless are more complex than that and has other references to the political context, as the Dyonisus' choice for Aeschylus, instead of Euripides, makes it clear. It´s needed, therefore, to study carefully these questions, so that it's meaning inside the play are better understood.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

FARIA, Milena de Oliveira. The good adviser: poetry and politics in AristophanesFrogs. 2016. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.