Lexington Books
Pages: 246
Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-4985-9076-1 • Hardback • November 2018 • $115.00 • (£88.00)
978-1-4985-9077-8 • eBook • November 2018 • $109.00 • (£84.00)
Daniel Holmes is associate professor of classics at Sewanee: The University of the South.
Chapter 1: Peisetaerus and Euelpides
Chapter 2: Persuading Tereus
Chapter 3: Persuading the Birds
Chapter 4: Persuading Human Beings
Chapter 5: Nephelokokkygia I: Before the City is Founded
Chapter 6: Nephelokokkygia II: After the City is Founded
Chapter 7: The Return of Nomos
Chapter 8: Persuading the Gods
Chapter 9: Peisetaerus Tyrannos
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Line Allocation of the Prologue (1–161)
Appendix 2: Pederasty in Aristophanes
In this impressive and original study of Aristophanes’ longest and most spectacular comedy, Daniel Holmes shows convincingly how the protagonist, adept in the rhetoric of the sophists, exercises persuasion to bring about a new society – one that is functional but lacking in joy and beauty. Along the way, Holmes offers illuminating insights into the sophist movement, utopian theories, and popular attitudes toward politics in classical Athens.
— David Konstan, New York University