'Honest and good citizen': The Informer in Aristophanes’ Plutus
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https://doi.org/10.26512/dramaturgias.vi13.31058Keywords:
Pluto. Informer. Impostors.Abstract
Hostility against informers is characteristic of Aristophanes’ comedy ”“ evident in denigrating expressions towards his figure or as a form of insult ”“ and there are three comedies that have him among his characters: Acharnians, Birds and Plutus. In this last one, the informer is given the possibility of expressing his claims more extensively, as well as arguing and defending his way of life, to which he remains faithful, immune to any transformation. We propose a Spanish translation of the scene where he intervenes (ll. 550- 958), enriched with notes, and subsequent analysis of its most important aspects.
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Cartledge, P. Millet & S. Todd (eds.). Nomos: Essays in Athenian Law, Politics
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grec antique: la comédie, Actes du X Colloque de la Villa Kérylos à Beaulieu”“sur”“
Mer, 1”“2, octobre 1999, Cahiers 10 (2000): 83”“98.
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102 (1981): 371-94.
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the History of Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
LOFBERG, J. Sycophancy in Athens. Chicago, 1976.
MAURACH, G. “Interpretationen zur Attischen Komödie”. In: AClass 11 (1968):
pp. 1-24.
MAZON, P. “La farsa en Aristófanes y el origen de la comedia en Grecia”. In:
Cuadernos de Arte Dramático. Suplementos de estudio no 16 (1953).
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sykophant”. In: P. Cartledge, P. Millet & S. Todd (eds.). Nomos: Essays in Athenian Law, Politics and Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. 83-102.
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1995.
ZIMMERMANN, B. “L'organizzazione interna delle commedie di Aristofane”.
In: Dioniso LVII (1987): 49-64.
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N. Fernández, C. . (2020). ’Honest and good citizen’: The Informer in Aristophanes’ Plutus. Dramaturgies, (13), 88–101. https://doi.org/10.26512/dramaturgias.vi13.31058
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