Democracy challenges ordinary citizens, calling upon them both to resist institutionalized rule as a potential gateway to elite domination and, at the same time, to work towards responsible collective action. This book locates in Aristophanes' comedies a complex comic dispositio…
Aristophanic Comedy and the Challenge of Democratic Citizenship' finds in Aristophanes' comedies a complex comic disposition necessary for meeting the fundamental challenge of ordinary citizenship. That challenge, Zumbrunnen argues, emerges from the tension between two democrati…
Aristophanic Comedy and the Challenge of Democratic Citizenship' finds in Aristophanes' comedies a complex comic disposition necessary for meeting the fundamental challenge of ordinary citizenship. That challenge, Zumbrunnen argues, emerges from the tension between two democrati…
"Aristophanic Comedy and the Challenge of Democratic Citizenship finds in Aristophanes' comedies a complex comic disposition necessary for meeting the fundamental challenge of ordinary citizenship. That challenge, Zumbrunnen argues, emerges from the tension between two democrati…
Democracy challenges ordinary citizens, calling upon them both to resist institutionalized rule as a potential gateway to elite domination and, at the same time, to work towards responsible collective action. This book locates in Aristophanes' comedies a complex comic dispositio…