Appreciating Aristophanes Through Comparison 公开

Finnell, Michael Glenn (2011)

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Appreciating Aristophanes Through Comparison
By Michael Finnell
Aristophanes has been one of the most influential comedians to ever bring laughter to an
audience. His works have survived extinction and remained relevant because they are not only
brilliantly written but also truly hilarious. Yet much of the humor Aristophanes' original
audience would have experienced is lost due to the great social, political, and cultural distance
between our modern society and classical Athens. This thesis proposes that employing a current
comedic production in a comparison to the extant works of Aristophanes can fill in many of the
gaps that exist in the minds and imaginations of Aristophanes' contemporary audience. The
cartoon comedy, South Park, was chosen for this purpose and the introduction sets out to
facilitate a scholarly comparison between these two comedies by introducing many of the broad
similarities between them. Subsequent chapters then explore more specific points of Aristophanic humor
that can be better understood through comparison to aspects of South Park.

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Introduction
1

Chapter 1: Wasps, Modernized
10

Chapter 2: Interpreting Celebrity Humor
22

Chapter 3: Aristophanic Politics
34

Conclusion
44

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