Abstract

The issue of the origin of the animal choruses disseminated in the comic Attic production of the fifth and sixth century has always attracted the interest of scholars for the variety of historical, iconographic, literary, performance-related, ritual, and even anthropological perspectives it opens on the theatrical phenomenon in the ancient world. This is also demonstrated by the publication, in a time span of about forty years, of two specific monographs on this topic, by Grigoris M. Sifakis and Kenneth Rothwell Jr., respectively, which – albeit with very different critical methods, approaches, and results – reassign to it a central position. Although this contribution takes into account the different theories elaborated on this theme since the last decades of the nineteenth century, it refrains from advancing solutions to a question destined to remain open, as well as from scrutinising the more significant peculiarities of the choruses from the surviving and fragmentary plays by Aristophanes and other comedians of archaia and mese. It focuses instead on a particular case, the parodos of Plutus, the last surviving comedy by Aristophanes, where a human chorus of old farmers temporarily regresses to a grotesquely wild animal state: a phenomenon which carries interesting implications for the metamorphic potentialities shown by an Attic comic chorus still in the age of transition from archaia to mese.

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• Imperio Olimpia

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Anno di pubblicazione

2015

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2421-4353

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