Contextualizing comedy: assumptions of intertextuality in the Aristophanic scholia
Right from its beginnings in the Alexandrian period, ancient scholarship on Aristophanes showed a particular interest not only in the linguistic and historical explanation of the comedies, but also in the intertextual connections between them and their many intertexts. By surveying the piecemeal and...
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De Gruyter
2024
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| Riassunto: | Right from its beginnings in the Alexandrian period, ancient scholarship on Aristophanes showed a particular interest not only in the linguistic and historical explanation of the comedies, but also in the intertextual connections between them and their many intertexts. By surveying the piecemeal and often elusive evidence provided by the Aristophanic scholia, the present contribution seeks to map out both the achievements and the limitations of this strand of research. While the identification of specific ‘source texts’ was clearly pursued with great — and some-times even excessive — zeal, much less time and effort was spent on evaluating and interpreting the material from a literary perspective. |
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