Abstract
Abstract
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.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
1
Chapter 1: Wasps, Modernized
10
Chapter 2: Interpreting Celebrity Humor
22
Chapter 3: Aristophanic Politics
34
Conclusion
44
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