Transgressions, misdemeanors, and punishment in the legal and social imaginary of ancient Greek tragedy
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.23.1.33-43Keywords:
comedy, crime, justiceAbstract
Ancient Greek comedy (s. V BC) shows a particular interest in criminal actions, criminals and all transgressive appearance or behavior. It inscribes its own imaginary cartography of the crime that criminalizes most relevant political actors of the society of its time, as demagogues and informers, products of the more radical democracy. This way it carries out a repairing “mission”, because comedy is a healer genre, and deals out its own justice – a poetic justice – to achieve the realization of a perfect utopian society.
References
AUSTIN, M.; VIDAL-NAQUET, Pierre. Economía y sociedad en la Antigua Grecia. Barcelona: Paidós, 1986.
BACZKO, B. Los imaginarios sociales: memorias y esperanzas colectivas. Buenos Aires: Nueva visión, 1991.
BAJTÍN, Michail. La cultura popular en la Edad Media y en el Renacimiento: el contexto de François Rabelais. Madrid: Alianza, 1987.
CARRIÈRE, Jean Claude. Le carnaval et la politique: une introduction à la comédie grecque, suivre d’un choix de fragments. Paris: [s.n.], 1979.
CASTORIADIS, C. La institución imaginaria de la sociedad. Barcelona: Tusquets, 1989.
CHRIST, M. Imagining bad citizenship in Classical Athens: Aristophanes’ Ecclesiazusae 730-836. In: SLUITER, I.; ROSEN, R. (Ed.). Kakos: badness and anti-value in Classical Antiquity. Leiden: Brill, 2008. p. 269-284.
COHEN, D. Crime, punishment, and the rule of law in Classical Athens. In: GAGARIN, M.; COHEN, D. The Cambridge companion of ancient law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. p. 21.
COHEN, D. Theories of punishment. In: GAGARIN, M.; COHEN, D. The Cambridge companion of ancient Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, p. 170-190.
CORNFORD, F. M. The origin of Attic comedy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.
EDWARDS, A. T. Historicizing the popular grotesque: Bakhtin’s Rabelais and Attic Old Comedy. In: SCODEL, R. (Ed.). Theater and society in the classical world. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993. p. 89-117.
GOLDHILL, S. Greek drama and political theory. In: ROWE, C.; SCHOFIELD, M., The Cambridge history of Greek and Roman political thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2000. p. 60-88.
GRIFFITH, R. D.; MARKS, R. A funny thing happened on the way to the Agora. Ancient Greek and Roman humour, Kinston: Legacy Book Press, 2008.
HALLIWELL, S. Ancient interpretations of ‘onomastíkomodein’ in Aristophanes, Classical Quarterly, Oxford, v. 34, 1984. p. 83-88.
HALLIWELL, S. Aristophanic Satire. The Yearbook of English Studies, v. 14, n. 7, 1984, p. 6-20.
HARRIS, E., LEÃO, D.; RHODES, P. (Eds.) Law and drama in Ancient Greece, London: Duckworth, 2010.
HARVEY, D. The sykophant and sykophancy: vexatious redefinition? In: CARTLEDGE; MILLET; TODD (Eds.). Nomos: Essays in Athenian law, politics and society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. p. 103-121.
HENDERSON, J. The Demos and the comic competition. In: WINKLER, J.; ZEITLIN, F. (Ed.) Nothing to do with Dionysos? Athenian drama in its social context. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. p. 271-313.
HUNTER, V. Did the Greeks have a word for crime? Dike, Milano, v. 10, 2007. p. 6-18.
KERTZER, J. Poetic justice and legal fictions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
LE GOFF, J. L’imaginaire médiéval, Paris: Gallimard, 1985.
LIDDELL, H.; SCOTT, R. A Greek-English lexicon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
OBER, J. Mass and elite in democratic Athens. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.
OLSON, D. Comedy, politics, and society. In: DOBROV, G. W. Brill’s companion to the study of Greek comedy. Boston: Brill, 2010.
OSBORNE, R. Vexatious litigation in classical Athens: sycophancy and the sycophant. In: CARTLEDGE, MILLET & TODD (Ed.). Nomos: essays in Athenian law, politics and society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. p. 83-102.
PELLEGRINO, M. La maschera comica del Sicofante. Lecce: Pensa MultiMedia Editore, 2010.
PLATTER, Ch. Aristophanes and the carnival of genres. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
RIU, X. Dionysism and comedy, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
ROSENBLOOM, D. From Ponêros to Pharmakos: theater, social drama, and revolution in Athens, 428-404 BCE. Classical Antiquity, Berkeley, v. 21, p. 283-346, 2002.
RUFFELL, I. Politics and anti-realism in Athenian Old Comedy: the art of impossible, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
RUSTEN, J. The birth of comedy: texts, documents and art from Athenian comic competitions, 486-280. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
SOMMERSTEIN, A. Old Comedians on Old Comedy. In: ZIMMERMANN (Ed.) Antike Dramen Theorien und ihre Rezeption. Stuttgart: M & P, Verlag für Wissenschaft und Forschung, 1992. p. 14-33.
SOMMERSTEIN, A. The comedies of Aristophanes. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1980- 2001.
TODD, S. C. The personnel of procedure, en The shape of Athenian law. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. p. 77-97.
VAN HOOK, L. Crime and criminals in the plays of Aristophanes. The Classical Journal, Athens (Georgia), v. 23, n. 4, 1928. p. 275-285.
VON MÖLLENDORFF, P. Grundlagen einer Ästhetik der Alten Komödie. Untersuchungen zu Aristophanes und Michail Bachtin, Tübingen, Gunter Narr Verlag, 1995.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2013 Claudia Fernández (Autor)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
