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Headword:
Aristophanês
Adler number: alpha,3932
Translated headword: Aristophanes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A Rhodian or Lindian, though some said an Egyptian, some a Kameirean; but an Athenian by adoption; for he was admitted to citizenship among them; a comic poet, son of Philippos, born [or: lived] during the wars in the 114th Olympiad,[1] the inventor of the tetrameter and octameter.[2] He had sons [named] Ararotes, Philippos, Philetairos,[3] comic poets [themselves]. But some have recorded that he was also a freedman. His plays are 44 -- but we have studied[4] the following plays of
Aristophanes:
Acharnians,
Frogs,
Peace,
Ecclesiazusae,
Thesmophoriazusae,
Knights,
Lysistrata,
Clouds,
Birds,
Wealth,
Wasps.[5]
Aristophanês, Rhodios êtoi Lindios, hoi de Aiguption ephasan, hoi de Kameirea: thesei de Athênaios: epolitographêthê gar par' autois: kômikos, huios Philippou, gegonôs en tois agôsi kata tên rid# Olumpiada, heuretês tou tetrametrou kai oktametrou: paidas schôn Ararota, Philippon, Philetairon, kômikous. tines de auton kai apodoulon historêkasi. dramata de autou md#. haper de peprachamen Aristophanous dramata tauta: Acharneis, Batrachoi, Eirênê, Ekklêsiazousai, Thesmophoriazousai, Hippeis, Lusistratê, Nephelai, Ornithes, Ploutos, Sphêkes.
Notes:
See generally OCD(4) s.v. '
Aristophanes(1)' (pp.157-9).
The present entry is a horrible mixture of fact (e.g. son of Philippos, father of
Araros[sic]) and fantasy. Mary Lefkowitz,
The Lives of the Greek Poets (London 1981) 112, reasonably comments: "All these conflicting nationalities sound as if they came from allegations in comedies ... Saying that he was given citizenship looks like a biographer's attempt to resolve the conflict created by his predecessors." On the date given see note 1 below.
[1] 324-321. The figure is evidently corrupt, as Kuster noted. Adler (addenda) notes scholars' attempts to turn it into '94th' (404-401).
[2] cf.
tau 395 (end) and
omicron 127.
[3]
phi 308.
[4] This meaning of the verb
pra/ttw is striking enough to merit mention in LSJ s.v.
[5] More than 5000 Suda entries, in fact, derive from the text of and/or
scholia to
Aristophanes; and -- to take an admittedly extreme example -- almost a quarter, all told, of the text of
Lysistrata is quoted.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 31 July 2001@17:02:37.
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