Wisdom in inverted commas: Greek comedy and the quotable maxim
dc.contributor.author | Wright, M | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-10-28T14:04:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-12-07 | |
dc.description.abstract | Greek comedy is full of quotable maxims. According to a literal reading, the comedians might be seen as custodians of traditional gnomic wisdom, along with their tragic counterparts. Nevertheless, it is argued here that maxims in comedy are different from maxims in other contexts. Comic maxims typically appear ‘within inverted commas’, not just in a literal sense (because of their inherent ‘quotationality’) but in a figurative sense (because of their pervasive irony and self-consciousness). Examples from Menander, Antiphanes, Diphilus and others are used to demonstrate that the comedians can be seen as playing around with the content and form of traditional wisdom. Sometimes they seem to be poking fun at the maxim as a medium of expression, or at tragic maxims, or at the habit of quotation itself. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 7 December 2021 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S1750270521000105 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/127610 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Cambridge Philological Society / Cambridge University Press | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Cambridge Philological Society. This version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_GB |
dc.title | Wisdom in inverted commas: Greek comedy and the quotable maxim | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-10-28T14:04:06Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0068-6735 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Cambridge University Press via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | The Cambridge Classical Journal | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2021-08-23 | |
rioxxterms.version | AM | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2021-08-23 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-10-28T13:36:47Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-12-09T14:19:39Z | |
refterms.panel | D | en_GB |
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