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476 most classical Greek authors at hand and to do without translations of all quotations. My objections to the contents of the book are the following. Starting from the mistaken assumption that Aristophanes is a poet "whose trade and vocation it was to comment on the realities of Athenian life and to teach and warn his fellow-citizens" (p. 316), he is forced to see in the Aves" an analyzing portrait of Athenian society and at the same time a view on the possibilities and limita- tions of human existence in general" (p. 250, repeated on p. 254, 264-265, 266). As a consequence, the author takes Aristophanes' portraits of poets, sycophants etc. much too seriously, clearly sup- posing that the poet regarded Athenian society as gravely degenerated. His "structural analysis" often amounts to a series of paraphrases, in which the writer makes surprising generalizations. Pisetaerus becomes man in general (p. 57), whose specific weapon is his logos (p. 71, supported by a passage from Isocrates), and "la condition athinienne" is nothing but a mask for ` `la condition humaine" (p. 143). This anachronistic attitude probably is the cause of some mistakes e.g. on p. 74 and p. 243, where
Mnemosyne – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1986
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