Research Catalog
Comedy and religion in classical Athens : narratives of religious experiences in Aristophanes' Wealth
- Title
- Comedy and religion in classical Athens : narratives of religious experiences in Aristophanes' Wealth / Francisco Barrenechea.
- Author
- Barrenechea, Francisco
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-3 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xii, 201 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- This book opens up a new perspective on Aristophanic drama and its relationship to Greek religion. It focuses on the comedy Wealth, whose fantasy of universal enrichment is structured upon a rich and largely unexplored framework of traditional stories of Greek religious experiences, such as oracles, miracle cures, and the introduction of new gods. The book examines the form and function of these stories, and explores how the playwright adapts them for his own comic purposes, grounding his comic fantasy on stories of philanthropic divinities who dependably respond to the needs of their worshippers. The collaboration of these deities, who act in tandem with their worshippers, achieves the comic fantasy. Francisco Barrenechea also addresses the larger question of how comedy participated in the religion of its time by imagining and dramatizing beliefs, and reveals the salutary bond that can exist between humor and religion in general.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Numinous wealth -- An Apollonian beginning -- A healing story -- A household shrine -- A new god arrives -- Conclusion: comic miracles.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-3
- ISBN
- 9781107191167
- 1107191165
- LCCN
- 2018003777
- 40028478234
- OCLC
- 1022075621
- Author
- Barrenechea, Francisco, author.
- Title
- Comedy and religion in classical Athens : narratives of religious experiences in Aristophanes' Wealth / Francisco Barrenechea.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781108129039
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028478234
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-3