A Homeric allusion at Aristophanes "Wasps" 1029-37

• Zachary P. Biles ^[1]
  1. [1] Franklin and Marshall College
• Localización: Classical journal, ISSN 0009-8353, Vol. 101, Nº 3, 2006, págs. 245-252
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Building on D.M. MacDowell's observation of metrical similarity in Wasps 1035 and Iliad 6.181, this article finds additional signs of verbal patterning on the model of the Homeric passage that point to a more significant relationship between the surrounding accounts of Aristophanes' heroic encounter with Kleon and of Glaukos' duel with Diomedes. Aristophanes playfully overturns the peaceful outcome of the epic encounter to give force to his renewed antagonism with Kleon, asserted also in the second parabasis.