Aristophanes and the cult of the saviour
Aristophanes’ Knights, Peace, and Birds are deeply interested in the figure of the civic “saviour”, who is depicted as a Gottmensch: a man become god or, at least, a man deserving of religious treatment such as the gods receive. While the Aristophanic treatment of the theme contains many parodic, pa...
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Salvatore Sciascia Editore
2020
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