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  • The Parabasis in Aristophanes: Prolegomena, Acharnians

  • A. M. Bowie
  • Journal:
    The Classical Quarterly / Volume 32 / Issue 1 / May 1982
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 February 2009, pp. 27-40
    Print publication:
    May 1982

  • In this article, an introduction to a proposed more comprehensive treatment of the subject, I wish to discuss the contribution that the parabasis makes to the understanding and interpretation of Aristophanes’ comedies. The study of this part of the plays has in the past concentrated upon two main areas: firstly, its role in the development of comedy, including questions about its original position in the dramatic structure and its relationship to other elements such as the parodos and agon; and secondly, its role as the repository of Aristophanes’ personal views.1 I shall touch but incidentally on the first of these, though my argument will have some bearing on it; to the second I shall return at the end. My aim is to consider an aspect of the parabasis that has not so much been neglected as dismissed as non-existent: the relation between the contents of the parabasis and those of the rest of the play. It is generally agreed that the parabasis deals with matters that are irrelevant to the dramatic action, but I wish to argue that it has a significant role as the focus of the most important themes in the play: far from breaking up the unity of the play, the parabasis provides indications as to where that unity is to be found, besides giving hints about the meaning of the play and the nature of Aristophanic comedy generally.2

  • Correspondence

  • G. E. F. Chilver
  • Journal:
    The Classical Review / Volume 32 / Issue 1 / April 1982
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    27 February 2009, p. 121
    Print publication:
    April 1982
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