L’ὕβρις chez Aristophane

The thirty-one occurrences of the word “hubris” or its derivatives in Aristophanes’s theatre can almost always be taken in the sense of “affront” or “excess”, in the context of persecution, violence or trials. Whether the opponent is human or divine hardly makes a dif...

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Main Author: Pascal Thiercy
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Presses universitaires de Caen 2007-12-01
Series:Kentron
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/kentron/1754
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description The thirty-one occurrences of the word “hubris” or its derivatives in Aristophanes’s theatre can almost always be taken in the sense of “affront” or “excess”, in the context of persecution, violence or trials. Whether the opponent is human or divine hardly makes a difference. The confrontations between the Aristophanic hero and the divine also come down to Polis alone and all amounts to Athens and its laws.
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