Table of Contents

List of Figures Preface A Note on the Spelling of Ancient Greek words in English A Note on the Play’s Title List of Abbreviations 1. Aristophanes and drama in Classical Athens 2. Aristophanes’ Cavalry and Cleon 3. Cavalry 1-302: Prologue scene and parodos 4. Cavalry 303-610: First agon and parabasis 5. Cavalry 611-996: Report of off-stage action and second agon 6. Cavalry 997-1150: Divination contest and ‘duet’ 7. Cavalry 1151-1315: Competition in public service and second parabasis 8. Cavalry 1316-1408: Closing episodes and exodos 9. Modern reception and performance Notes Bibliography Further Reading Index

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An introduction to Aristophanes’ most famous ‘demagogue play’, with description of its socio-historical context; analysis of its plot, themes, and imagery; and an overview of its reception history

About the Author

Robert Tordoff is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek, York University, Toronto, Canada.

Reviews

"A novel approach to Classical Greek drama: the insights are original, showing that the rhetoric of praise and blame in epic extends into the multidimensional poetics of tragedy. Particularly illuminating is the author's demonstration that the discourse of women is poeticised in special ways that raise the level of humanism conveyed by tragedy." --Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, USA