Retórica e política dionisíacas em Acarnenses de Aristófanes
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.47661/afcl.v13i26.23553Keywords:
Aristophanes, comedy, DionysusAbstract
The Acharnians is the only comedy written by Aristophanes in which a character speaks explicitly on behalf of the author. In general, it is the chorus who plays the role of declared spokesman for the comedian, in the parabaseis of his works. In this play, on the contrary, we see the protagonist using the first person to refer to an event outside the comic plot, and supposedly occurred with the author of the. This strategy, in itself, allows the work to present a complex interweaving of themes: a self-defense of the protagonist Dikeopolis, for having signed a private truce with Sparta (which refers, in a paratragical game, to the self-defense of Telephus in the homonym Euripidean tragedy); a self-defense that the author Aristophanes himself performs, in order to refute the accusations made by Cleon against him; a self-defense of the comedy, in comparison with the tragedy. As can be seen, there is a superposition of apologetic layers, the greatest characteristic of which are meta-theatrical and meta-rethorical procedures. In this article, I intend to analyze some of the various relations between comedy, rhetoric and politics that Aristophanes' text suggests. And finally, I intend to draw from such analysis some conclusions regarding the dionysian character of Aristophanes' politics.References
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